Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id XAA07071 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 27 Feb 2002 23:59:59 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.240.222.132] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: RE: Rumsfeld Says He May Drop New Office of Influence Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:54:36 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F154M6iMH4TbqKfGrkp00015b8e@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Feb 2002 23:54:36.0498 (UTC) FILETIME=[1C878320:01C1BFEA] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: RE: Rumsfeld Says He May Drop New Office of Influence
>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:41:28 -0000
>
> >>How many months now, and where is bin Laden?
>
> <Well, now....
>
> > This seems like a most tepid condemnation to me.
> >
> > As the savvy, retrogrouch lawyer said in the Star Trek episode where
>Kirk
> > was being court-martialed, 'it's only easy to find a man who _wants_ to
> > be found.'>
> >
> Ok, but I was merely pointing out that the initial goal was to
>capture bin Laden and close down al-qaeda. Whilst he is at large, surely
>al-qaeda is not closed down? Whatever the plaudits we might offer for
>bringing down the Taliban, that was surely a side issue. If bin Laden had
>been elsewhere in the world, the Taliban would still be in power. A bit
>like Musharaff- a military dictator who took power via a coup- suddenly
>becoming Blair and Bush's best buddy. Expediency rules in international
>relations.
>
>
Is Musharraf going to allow for Pakistani elections to resume towards the
end of this year? I vaguely recall something being said about this, but it
has gone irretrievably into my vast memory hole.
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