[KantianBurke]

Even to take down Al Qaida? Provided no idiotic naiton building of cesspools was involved, shouldn't going into the Horn of Africa to take down terror networks be a legitimate goal?

[Arkinsaw]

When Al-Qaeda takes over a government, then any press conference gets a JDAM. Every meeting of its Islamic Court gets a JDAM. When it sends a representative to the UN it goes to Guantanamo. When its officials try to fly overseas it gets intercepted in the air and escorted to a US airbase in Italy again.

They are Al-Qaeda. We may not be able to go in and get them, but they should at the very least have to run scared from cell phones and conduct government meetings only in basements and caves.

[mcshot]

Yes, as long as the only boots on the ground are those that return to earth with the rest of bomb debris.