Bin Laden

[Joe Allonby]

Cost benefit analysis? How about invading Iraq versus 3 helicopters
and 40 men. How about destabilizing an entire region of the globe;
killing hundreds of thousands including American service people,
journalists, and Iraqi civilians; inflaming world opinion; all while
standing under a banner proclaiming "Mission Accomplished" versus
actually killing the guy responsible.


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 5/2/2011 11:10 AM, rich wrote:
>>
>> if u think this doesnt affect al qaeda and its minions well i think
>> you'd have to reconsider that
>
> Oh I agree it's a good thing.
>
> But If one could do a cost benefit analysis--the cost of getting rid of al
> qaeda against the benefit of ever being rid of it we'd want our money back.
>
> Not that any other course would have been possible.
>
>
>
> P
>>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/2/2011 9:08 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It changes nothing.
>>>>
>>> It affects the media business.  Every pundit will get to write a long,
>>> cliche-ridden column about it.
>>>
>>> It's a good thing but I didn't hear any horns blaring into the night in
>>> my
>>> neighborhood.
>>>
>>> P
>>>>
>>>> Laura
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>
>>>>> From: rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>>>> Sent: May 2, 2011 9:47 AM
>>>>> To: “pynchon-l at waste.org“<pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>>>> Subject: Bin Laden
>>>>>
>>>>> one can only be happy at his death, my friends
>>>
>
>