I'm not an insider strategist. I just think there are certain metrics that are reasonable gauges of how effective we have been in responding to 9-11, and surely one of those metrics is the capture and execution of the mastermind of 9-11. Like Bush, who said after 9-11 that getting Osama "dead or alive" was his focus, I still think that should be a top priority. The guy deserves to die for all the pain, terror, misery he caused on 9-11 -- for all the dead and for all the widows and orphans he created. He deserves to be executed. I want him captured and put to death. Anyone who says that makes me a "liberal" has a curious notion of what a "liberal" is.
By your own comments on this thread, you have dismissed the Iraq War because we have not captured OBL.
Now answer my questions or continue on with your typical leftists dodging
Do you think the War in Iraq and Afghanistan can go on at the same time we look for Osama Bin Laden?
If we unitlaterally end the war and pull our troops out, won't that make it MORE difficult to find OBL, not less difficult?
I would maintain having 150,000-200,000 US Military personnel in place in Afghanistan and Iraq puts us in a better position to find him.
If he has fled to Iran, having our military where they are us a good thing.
If he is in Pakistan...same thing.
If he is in Iraq...same thing.
If he is in Afghanistan...same thing.
Basically, if he is anywhere in the Mideast, we are in a better position with the troops where they are, doing what they are doing than doing anything else.
What do you think the US government/military should do differently that would improve the situation and make it MORE likely OBL would be found?
Obviously. What you also are is intellectually dishonest. You posture is to hide your anti War on Terror position by pretending to be merely critical of the TACTICS. NO what you REALLY are is Isolationist. And this is just another attempt in your continual campaign to find SOME way to get ANYONE to agree with your Isolationist "Let-hide-under-the-bed until the terrorist all go away mindset. Fortunately, most Americans are smart enough to actually LEARN rather then cling to a failed ideological position.