[RussianConservative]

It won't be a perpetual war, just look at how things have progessed since 9-11, Al Qaeda hasn't struck outside of it's own backyard in over a year, they started bombing in Saudi (not good for their support there). If we take away their front men we take away their ability to operate.

You ignore simple fact that one of Al Quida main goal is to over throw Saudies....second why you expect them to strike where it is hard...good general go at easiest/weakest links of defense: they strike in Turkey, Russia, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Phillipines, Afghanistan....in each they drain enemy resource at least some...Sun Tzai say: he who guard everything is strong no where.

[discostu]

There's a base contradiction in your thought. If the Saudi royals are such great supporters of terrorists then why would Al Queada want to get rid of them?

They strike where they can get the most blood and cause the most fear. They apparently can no longer strike America directly, which is exactly the reason we're fighting this war. We're not gaurding everything, we're gaurding ourselves, they knocked down the best damn building we ever built and we're not going to let them do it again. But the war can't be fought here, what we've done is moved the war into the bad guys area. Now when they strike they make enemies where they used to make supporters, they lose funding. We've taken away two of their best safe havens and one of their best sources of money, and this has dramatically and obviously affected them and made America more secure.