[SolitaryMan]

Now, if Bin Laden or Omar is in this cave, how in the heck are we ever going to prove in lil Tommy Dashole that we are making progress on the war? We need to send many more troops in.

[another cricket]

Let's just send in Little Tommy to sift through the remains. Wouldn't want our solders to have to do it, might be some toxic waste down there.

A. Cricket

[Principled]

Now, if Bin Laden or Omar is in this cave, how in the heck are we ever going to prove in lil Tommy Dashole

He will never admit to the death of either. Even if we capture them, bring them back, and place them on Dashole's doorstep, he'll deny it could be true, say it's a hoax, etc. Now that he's pinned his future on them NOT being caught/killed, he'll never accept any truth that contradicts his little (and I do mean "little") imagination.

[null and void]

Now, if Bin Laden or Omar is in this cave, how in the heck are we ever going to prove it

We don't wan to:

My dream comes true:

We flatten The Taliban, and Osama "escapes"...
We hear that he is at the Madrassa schools Pakistan. Flatten Madrassa schools, Osama "escapes"...
We hear that he is in Indonesia. Flatten Indonesia, Osama "escapes"...
We hear he is in Somalia. Flatten Somalia, Osama "escapes"...
He becomes the "Flying Dutchman" of the Muslim world, where ever he is sighted, disaster follows.
It won't be too long before NOBODY wants him in their back yard. Pretty hard to be a martyr under those circumstances. Also we can have "reliable reports" from "secret sources" that he has been spotted anywhere we want him to have been spotted...

By having him hopscotch through the entire non-arab Muslim world first, we preserve the alliance.
By the time we get to Arab countries, they will have lost any moral standing they may have had in the Muslim world...

We keep this up until:
1) State sponsored terrorism stops.
2) The Mythical Moderate Muslism regain control of their religion, or
3) The Koran is read only in hell.