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Originally posted by BGCarrera32
You've taken both quotes of context, as these were said tongue in cheek because the American military was already in trashcanistan with more on the way. When you put the squeeze on the region and restrict the money flow, he essentially becomes a nut job in a cave...hence personally I don't care where he is so long as he has no basis from which to operate, and if they nail his sorry a$$ that's a bonus.
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I'm having trouble imagining a context where that would be an amusing comment. Americans were losing their lives supposedly pursuing public enemy #1. I think as a soldier or a survivor of a 9/11 victim, I'd find the comments unpalatable in the extreme.
There is no great benefit in 'cutting off the money' when OBL has a reputed wealth of hundreds of millions and the best guesses by US officials is that the 9/11 attacks cost all of $500K.
That nut job in a cave seems to have been behind the most devastating attack on American civilians in history. His current 'basis to operate' is approximately 60 countries and tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people who see him as a hero.
To use Mul's vernacular, he is The Fly That Must Be Swatted.