[GunRunner]

George Will said it better than I can a year or so ago. I think that this is the maximum that we should do, if anything:

America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small, potent Special Forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters.

[Vigilanteman]

Once every generation or so, the Islamic world produces a genuinely great leader like Ahmad Shah Massoud, the first victim of 9-11. See my Freeper page for more information.

Massoud's blood is the direct responsibility of Bill Clinton and Madeline Albright who thought the remote possiility of a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India was a greater threat than a sure chance to take out Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaida.

Short of another leader of that character rising out of Afghanistan, it will always be your typical Crapistan backwater. Clinton's betrayal of Massoud ranks right up there with Carter's betrayal of the Shah of Iran, IMHO.