05-04-2011, 09:15 PM
Dakota wrote:
[quote=rjmacs]
But in the mission to kill OBL, we didn't really "go into Pakistan" in a military sense. We swooped in, killed him, grabbed material and his corpse, and swooped out.
As I said before, I signed on to this policy when Bush enunciated it a decade ago. Problem is when BUsh said it he was accused of being a cowboy. What right the US has to stage what are practically assassination raids around the world without asking anybody, they asked? We are better than them, it was said. If this episode helped bring them onboard then we indeed have a unified nation.
But do we have equivalent intelligence on where al-Zawahiri is hiding out? Or is that what you mean by "Is Yemen next?" Are you asking if Yemen should/would be next, if we know exactly where al-Zawahiri is? Just trying to clarify - i'm not so good at reading between the lines. Thanks!