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Old 09-11-2006, 02:25 PM   #306
headsplice
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Originally Posted by MaggieL
OBL is one hell of a lot less free than he would have been following your proposed strategy. Nor do I believe for one second that "being nice" would result in there being fewer terrorists.
No, it probably wouldn't. But, not being dickheads to countries who offered us help would have been useful (e.g., Iran, which had intelligence about OBL, but we refused to talk to them).
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