Barack Obama: it is no longer essential to kill Osama bin Laden - Times Online: "As recently as October 7, in a presidential debate, Mr Obama said: 'We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.'
Yesterday, the President-elect adopted far less aggressive language, saying his 'No 1 priority' was to protect America from further attack.
'I think that we have to so weaken [bin Laden's] infrastructure that, whether he is technically alive or not, he is so pinned down that he cannot function,' he said. 'And I'm confident that we can keep them on the run and ensure that they cannot train terrorists to attack our homeland.'"
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"Technically alive"? Isn't it interesting how quickly campaign rhetoric becomes inoperative?
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