Thanks Mia T!
Hint: this is not a war it is a demonstration of our new PC ways. We learned nothing from the losses in Vietnam.
I completely disagree. The fact that they got away with killing thousands of us was that they took us by surprise and got lucky. If they have a way to kill thousands more, they will do it, but they will have a much tougher time now that our guard is up. Any nuclear devices that they might possess should be easy to detect. Anthrax attacks are proving to be ineffective.
Your implicit suggestion that we perform a nuclear first strike is both barbaric and militarily useless. These terrorists are not going to be stopped by anything other than their own personal deaths. Killing thousands or even millions of innocent civilians will not deter the terrorists from doing anything. They have no morality, obey nobody, and will not stop for any reason.
So what do we do about it? Look at some Israeli successes and failures. They succeed when they take out terrorists leaders and engage in pinpoint strikes. They failed when they invaded Lebanon. We need more pinpoint strikes.