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	Name:	MAJ USA RET -
	Subject:	So?
	Date:	11/5/2009 9:22:24 AM

Did you notice that I pointed out that the Pak-Afghan region has NO resources? That means no indigenous source of income. That would drive a need for importing money. Al Qaeda has money and needs secrecy and shelter for its operations. Those mountainous regions controlled by the Taliban represent just the sort of rugged remoteness that suits Osama bin Laden’s operation… though I suspect he’s been dead for a few years.

If the Taliban harbors terrorists as a trade, they must accept the risks associated with that trade. The innocent civilians are fodder in the financial scheme of things. The predator surveillance/weapons platform (accessorized with our recon marine painting targets from a distance with his laser) is a big problem for the Taliban/al Qaeda alliance. So, it is convenient for the miserable civilians to be martyred in the media. It’s just another bloody overhead cost.

Hornets must live in a colony. It is symbiotic. Terrorists must return to their colony. But, we keep knocking down the hive. They keep moving the hive.

I suspect it is irrelevant to the Taliban about al Qaeda’s global jihad… regional misery obscures global thinking… as long as the money keeps coming to the Taliban. If you aren’t familiar with "Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs", now would be a good time to Google it. Unlike the Iraqis and Iranians, the Pak-Afghan’s are at the bottom level of the triangle.