snowcloud,
I think you made a very accurate assessment. bin Laden has it out for the United States, and there is nothing we can do to alter his views, except to terminate him.
Its obvious he has a network here in the United States, and will utilize them again, especially, if the end is near for bin Laden. Fortunately, for the U.S. we'll win the numbers game. That is we'll just keep sending troops upon troops until the job is done. He doesn't have that luxury of expense. Matter of fact every time he sends out a suicide mission his contingency gets smaller by the mission.
So how do you capture bin Laden? I think the most logical and safest way would to invade Afghanistan, and take control of the country, and then cut off his needs for food, fuel, ammo, etc. Just wait him out.
Unfortunately, to capture or kill ben Laden is not enough. If you have cock roaches in your house, you know you just can't kill the majority of them, you have to get them all. I believe, if you want to do this right, other countries need to be taken over. I'm not sure if NATO or the U.S. has that kind of resolve, but now is the time, like it was years ago against Iraq.
We will probably lose American citizens to terrorism during this conflict, but that is a sacrifice that has to be made. Sometimes you have to lose a little to gain a lot.
It's unbelievable that so much killing and pain has to be done just to obtain freedom, but in essence that's how the United States came into being. Its ironic, at times, to preserve the existence of our freedom is to disobey the actual principles that support it.
I have to say no matter how ugly it gets, we as a nation have to get uglier. Hopefully, from this point on, the U.S. will adopt the philosophy of Israel. If you kill one of us, we'll kill ten of you.
And with all this killing going on. God help us all. |
