My sister and I were talking yesterday, and her comment was "well, if they were going to do more than they hvae done, wouldn't they have already done it?"
My response: "Not necessarily, because their acts of terror are really their most potent weapons. I would think they would wait until WE strike a blow--particularly if such waiting gives people time to be complacent--and then retaliate with more domestic terror, just to show us that we are still helpless to stop them."
If they do, then I guess the American people will finally begin to get what Pres. Bush is saying to them: This IS going to be a long, protracted conflict, with periods where seemingly nothing is happening.
I wonder, though, if it would not be a good thing to stage some sort of "Doolittle raid." The difficulty faced by the U.S. at the outset of World War II was that there wasn't a lot they could do immediately as they geared up for war. So we staged the Doolittle raid on Tokyo mostly for propaganda value (as well as psy-ops against the enemy), to help the American people understand that we were not without fangs.