> Hell, Doug, even capturing bin Laden has become a distinctly secondary
objective. We know where the concentrations of AQ strength are, and NONE of
them are the objects of the next phase of the war. It's clear that crushing
AQ isn't part of the imperial agenda because we've stopped trying to crush
AQ. As soon as we announced that Pakistan - AQ's creator and patron - was
our "ally" in this war, it was entirely predictable that the AQ camps
outside Afghanistan would go untouched.
But they captured a top Al Qaeda guy named Abu Zubeida in Pakistan just a few weeks ago. There was a big raid and a shootout.
Seth