[Burkeman1]

As a result of these and other attacks, operations were planned to capture or kill the ultimate perpetrators, Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, but each time the missions were blocked. A plethora of self-imposed constraints--I call them showstoppers--kept the counterterrorism units on the shelf.

Oh the special ops have been sidetracked? Not unleashed? Maybe that is because they are largely Iraq right now!? Talk about "showstoppers" to the war against the bastards who killed 3000 Americans on 9/11 - the war in Iraq takes the cake. And this clown writes for the mag that was a major "showstopper" in that war.

[VaBthang4]

???

Perhaps typing your seemingly inebriated thoughts out clearly would help others to understand them.