Remember, they initially got here utilizing our legal visas from our unsuspecting immigration system. They trained their pilots in our schools and using our flight simulators. The killers used 3 of our commercial aircraft to destroy the same real estate that a TU-160 Blackjack bomber would be required for, and which would have been unable to enter U.S. airspace undetected. They timed their mission extremely closely and selected large, symbolic, media-spectacular targets in our seats of finance and military power. All the active participants died (willingly), so no one could be directly questioned or held.
Because of this level of genius and cunning, I would submit that these folks are extremely formidable. They are not the paunchy pashas who rule Kuwait, nor the illiterate peasants on the Afghani hillsides. They are led by a man of wealth, with an advanced degree in Engineering, who (if he is truly responsible) has made good on his promise to, at least partially, bring America to its knees (witness the stock market, airline & travel industries' slide, and the impact on international markets).
Take them lightly at your (and our) ultimate peril.
We've been helping them f w/us.
If/when we get serious, they'll be vapor!
I agree but the way to beat these cunning pigs is to kill their leadership in the Middle East (all of them), their intellectual and network infrastructure and whatever assets they have financial, military or otherwise. Through extensive and unrelenting intelligence I believe it is possible to destroy the structures that these terrorists depend on to carry out their murderous missions. This coupled with finishing off Iraq (with Saddam's head on a platter) and overthrowing the leadership of any other country that harbors terrorist will end terrorism, as we know it. At least the Middle East brand which is by far the most prevalent. Finally, all the Aliens here from the Middle East have to be deported. We can’t have our FBI running all around the country side all the time investigating and chasing down Arabs looking for subsidized education and lord knows what else. Let them go back to their country and work to improve their own country’s conditions. Perhaps many of these Arabs will get a better perspective on just how screwed up their countries are and appreciate how great America truly is. Naaaa.