The continuous whine of yours that killing terrorists "isn't making us safer" is a sad reflection on the fact that you don't understand that we are at war.
Which part of "war on terror" don't you understand? This is a war that will go after the terrorists wherever they are gathered in large numbers and supported by goverments hostile to our government.
PS - your namesake clearly understood appeasement does not work and you may wish to read some of his biographies.
And, I meant to remind you - even the Senate Intelligence Committee report last week mentioned that Iraq was training Al Qaeda terrorists on weapons training and how to attack America. And yet you don't think we should go after the very people who are actively supporting and working with Al Qaeda terrorists. Hmm. Strange set of priorities you have there.
Oh, I know you'll whine that we've "forgotten" OBL. But you see, we haven't. There are over 20,000 soldiers in Afghanistan whose sole job is to find him. And why do you think our military can't do two things at once?
In his brand new book, "The Secret History of the Iraq War," the man I consider to be among America's foremost intelligence experts – Yossef Bodansky, former director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare – writes that, in the fall of 2002, Saddam Hussein supplied operational weapons of mass destruction to Osama bin Laden's terrorists.
He also concludes that Iraq's intelligence services provided extensive military assistance to al-Qaida beginning n the early 1990s.
He also, once again, shows that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, as well as most of its program to develop more, had left the country prior to our invasion.