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So, billhilly, what would you recommend? Your post is (as likely you were well aware) ambiguous.

Would you recommend that we call a spade a spade, go in and do what we have to do, as best we can, and if the Moslems rise up in a great hatred of the Evil Eagle, so be it?

Or would you that we consider it essential to avoid pissing off the people of Islam too much, essential to keep them nominally on our side, even it means leaving Osama to live on, as we did with Sadam.

I was in the Air Force too, but in Thailand, tracking satellites. Nothing especially relevant here. And since then I have not had the experience you've had in the government.

You ask important and thoughtful questions. It has been my experience that immediate and measured action, whether with children, animals or nations is effective. Do you remember when your parents were upset with you? If they punished you, appropriately, and in a timely manner, you felt that all was alright. Did you not?

It was my great pleasure to hear President Bush address the joint session of congress. When he said, "Whether we bring Bin Laden to justice, or justice to Bin Laden, justice will be done," I was overcome by the simplicity of that statement. What about you?