Stardate 20010927.0712 (On Screen): The government has announced that a military strike is "not imminent". Well, maybe. About the only thing we can be certain of is that if a strike
were imminent they wouldn't tell us. It's not that they want to lie to us, necessarily, but what they tell us is also heard by our enemies. The last thing you want to do when you're ready to attack is to let your opponent know that the blow is coming. While we citizens may be intensely curious about it, we do not have a "need to know". So whever our forces do attack, don't expect to find about it ahead of time. In fact, there's speculation that both American and British special forces units are already operating in Afghanistan. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest to discover that was true, but I don't expect to find out the truth of it for years, if I ever do.
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