I am convinced that once 911 occurred the Bush administration did not want to capture Bin Laden. Furthermore, you should not have wanted it either! If Bin Laden had been captured or killed, then the left would have insisted that Bush try him in a court of law and immediately cease any further military response to the attack on U.S. soil. Subsequently, one of the many Bin Laden wannabes would have stepped up to the plate and continued with the terrorist activities just like they did prior to Iraq; i.e. status quo.
Instead, the U.S. toppled two, count’em, authoritarian regimes which had previously sponsored terrorism and conducted a war on a battlefield of OUR CHOOSING (something the left clearly does not understand) where Al Queda operatives freely came to be killed.
Now, the stuffing is clearly knocked out of Al Queda which is frankly far more important than taking out Bin Laden and as an added bonus the Taliban and Hussein are not in the business of sponsoring state terrorism.
That said, it's now about time for him to go room temperature.
BTW I believe that we will hear before Monday that they got a HVT in the attacks in Paki land last week. At least I am keeping my fingers crossed.
some of what you say has merit but as Michael Scheuer pointed out last night what motivates Osama, Al-Qaeda, and other terrorists and the Taliban is not yes behind us.
Understand that terrorism is a “very cheap endeavor” and since we have yet to stop Osama bin Laden from having access to the 100 million dollars of his money or that of his father he can operate with impunity until he eventually dies.