The left and the aclu wouldn't allow it. We will have to sit and wait for another hit before the government gets serious about the WOT. As long as PC reigns, our hands are tied.
It's really up to congress, don't you think? If (and it's a big one) they could be persuaded to recognize the seriousness of our twin problems -- the domestic enemy and the foreign arms/idelogical proliferation, they might act.