You said: "There IS such a thing as retribution..."
Yes there is. Some also call it Revenge. Others decry it as momentarily vengeful, satisfying some personal desire to "get even"...and ordinarily not meaningful enough for nations to bother with. A childish notion... justifying silly "tit for tat"...unlikely to solve or address root causes or solve real problems. But ,Thanks for the reminder.
Oh and Thanks for your condescending remarks on my limited knowledge of terrorism...I actually have been reading and keeping up on the 'folklore" published by our think tanks and others about the subject for the last several years. No expert at all, I do usually detect raw pig-headed ignorance of the basics as the will sometimes arise and might even offer an opinion.
I realize how aggravating that must be to those who only use the left-wing MSM as their only source of information on the subject. But those types are always ready with idiotic notions and McGyver-like opinions on everything. Besides, like you, they are almost always angry at the "time-o-day" anyway.
Take care of those nerves.
I was responding in-kind; you started it with the attitude that you're right and I don't know what I'm talking about and too stupid to know what 'hierarchical' means.
You have no idea whatsoever where I get my news from and your commenting of such is naive to say the least. There is an intrinsic national emotional value to seeing OBL caught and brought to pay for his crime, regardless of whether he is/was still in control of some or all of the terrorist ideology...