RadiomanATL
Senior Member
RGS wrote:
Read your own link, they did not offer to give him up. They offered to let us try to prove to them, a biased source, that he was involved in terrorism. In other words even though the WORLD had seen his tapes declaring Jihad, had seen his tapes taking credit for terrorist attacks, the Taliban wanted some more proof he was a terrorist.
It was a political ploy to stop the bombings. There is no reason to believe they ever intended to actually turn him over.
I can understand your POV, RGS. I'm more disturbed that we never knew this in 2001 than by whether it was a missed opportunity. Why was this kept secret? I am unsure whether it would have been wise to at least explore the possibility of bin Laden being sent to a third country for trial, mebbe for a week. (The exploring of the idea, not the trial.) I could have lived with bin Laden being tried at The Hague, as long as after, he was executed.
What would a week have cost us in "dignity" compared to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Middle Easterners and the loss of life for thousands of American soldiers?
Yes she said we and then some claimed she didnt know until now.
Who cares what other people claimed. We're discussing your mistakes.