Sen. Barack Obama photographed during an interview with USN&WR reporter Ken Walsh at the University of Maryland, College Park. (Jeffrey MacMillan for USN&WR)From Times Online:
Barack Obama last night suggested that removing Osama bin Laden from the battlefiell was no longer essential and that America's security goals could be achieved by merely keeping al-Qaeda "on the run".
"My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him," he said. "But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives then we will meet our goal of protecting America."
His comments, in a CBS interview last night, represent a significant watering down of the "dead or alive" policy pursued by President Bush since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. They also appear to contradict Mr Obama's own statements made in the election campaign.
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