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And Saddam: Survival is victory; Americans don't like casualties on either side; bring in foreign TV, but not foreign print reporters; portray yourself as the victim, not the bully, and don't slug it out, but "shoot and scoot."
"Wars mean casualties" said the Telegraph , calling once again for the deployment of ground troops.
The attack was made at night, to minimize civilian casualties.
Such a study, if it actually existed, yields significant insight into the thinking of al Qaeda's leaders: (1) they rejected hijackings aimed at gaining the release of imprisoned comrades as too complex, because al Qaeda had no friendly countries in which to land a plane and then negotiate; (2) they considered the bombing of commercial flights in midair-as carried out against Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland- a promising means to inflict massive casualties; and (3) they did not yet consider using hijacked aircraft as weapons against other targets.
Better, perhaps, to sort things out thoroughly in the short run, and to prevent even greater devastation for all concerned down the road--even if that means suffering a few casualties, or opening ourselves up to the charge of imperialism.NomadNet, a page on "Somalia, Peacekeeping, Relief & Economic Development Issues" run by Michael Maren, has been shut down, but its archives are still open.