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Originally posted by FATPad
So I take it none of you were listening when everyone and their mother who was in a position to know said this had the potential to be an operation that went on for years, right?
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Welll.. its arguable they said that because they knew in advance this operation was going to turn into the giant clusterfuck that it has. But, the people demanded something be blown up, so something had to be blown up, dammit! And after blowing up mounds of dirt, afghan civillians, and making some noise, they find out what everyone knew all along - the only way to catch a guy who lives in caves and has tens of thousands of square miles of the harshest, most remote wilderness on earth in which to hide is to wait for him to fuck up or die.
The death toll to Afghan civillians is going to be the death knell for this one, not the length of time. There is *alot* of that sort of stuff that has yet to be widely publicized.