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The said Constitution shall be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.

-Samuel Adams

A new kind of surge

So by now everybody is aware that last week a SEAL team crossed the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to conduct a raid against Islamic militants, and that Pakistani officials are really angry about this.

What I am not hearing much about (and I would like to make note of) is this:

President Bush has approved a plan that has brought a "surge" of CIA personnel from around the world into the fight along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border,

The LA Times story makes reference to an NPR story that I've had sitting on my desktop for the last week, waiting for me to figure out what I want to say about it. But what is there to say?
- 'Of course we've had some good idea where Osama bin Laden is, but for political reasons we've refrained from killing him'?
- 'Blatently violating Pakistan's sovereignty was a bad idea when Obama said it a year ago, and it was bad when Bush authorized it last week'?
- 'These theatrics won't sway independent voters to support McCain'?
- Or like the source quoted in the NPR story, 'Why wasn't this done a year ago?'

Yeah, any of those would do for now.

Posted by Wulf on September 16, 2008 at 08:56 PM

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-Samuel Adams

A new kind of surge

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