Post 41: If we need to stop criminals police work should suffice.
Police work in the U.S. outside our borders is not work for our police. We have no police that work on a federal level much less with an international scope.
Nations have their own rules for policing.
With terrorist( and commies etc) you have to do unto others before they do unto you.
And nations have interests other than ours in formulating those rules, and enforcing them. The Taleban certainly had rules for their own police and I got no indication that deterence had pushed them toward cracking down on anti-US terrorist groups. I suspect that they are not the only regime with policing rules that put my safety fairly low on their priority list. Your suggestion seems to be that for those states, and those that may even support anti-US terrorism, threat of destruction is the answer. I think on the other thread you referred to that as "bullying".