State sponsored terrorism still exists... Hizbollah/Iran is just one of many examples.
They did learn the lesson of Libya, didn't they?
You are right about changing the attitude of the civilian...who have been raised on tales of the USA - the Great Satan, the reason for all the misery in the world...
That is who we are battling for as we march toward Baghdad... For if terror is going to be defeated, then it will need to be defeated in the breeding grounds of disaffected Arabs/Muslims who do see us as the ills of their society. We will have to bring them into the 21st century, whether they want to come or not...
The Osama Bin Ladins... the hard-core terrorist who see it as their duty to overthrow an inferior culture (ours) and restore Islam to its former glory... the glory the Koran demands it occupy... can only be dealt with militarily.
I am all for prosecuting the war on terror... I'm just trying to keep the big picture in mind. This war on Iraq is just the next battle in a war that will extend to many fronts and be fought many ways... You see both ways in the care the Pentagon is fighting... To win the battle on the field and in the hearts of the oppressed Iraqis. Soon, the oppressed Iranians, Syrians, Saudis, etc. will see us not as the Great Satan, but true liberators...
When that happens, the PA might not be able to talk a 15 year old girl into walking into a Jewish kindergarden and murder 5 years old in the name of Pan Arabism or Islamic fundamentalism. Or Bin Ladin won't be able to find 19 murderers willing to turn planes into missles...
Only then, will the war be truly won...