[Tell It Right]

I respectfully disagree. I always hated the media's redefining of who our enemy is as being the singular person Bin Laden. It was always, "We took over much of Afghanistan. Killed many civilians. But Bush is a failure because he hasn't killed Bin Laden." For example, even with our fascination of the history of world war II most Americans can't today name the emperor of Japan because Americans for the most part weren't united against that singular person, but against Japan as a whole.

We should have defined our enemy as Afghanistan or the Taliban or Al Qaeda or Islam. We should have fought that group and killed as many people as it took to get them to surrender. If others next to them were killed because of miscommunication of our enemy's whereabouts, oh well. It happens in war. If they don't like it they shouldn't attack us -- especially killing thousands of our civilians.

[woodbutcher1963]

Our enemy was and still is Islamist Extremists. Bin Laden was the leader of the worst Islamic terrorist organization in the world. Killing him was akin to killing Hitler. IF you took out the rest of the Al Qaeda command structure with him, it would have sent a message to not attack the US for the next 50 years.

It would have also given all the other enemies the clear message that we were not afraid to use every weapon in our arsenal including nuclear weapons to defeat an enemy.