I'm sure you noticed the targets selected by the terrorists, they were symbols. If the White House had taken a hit they would have accomplished their full goal of hitting the primary symbols of American Governance, Finance, and military might. In the same way, bin Laden is a symbol for us. The idea of a vague shadowy terrorist network as your enemy is hard to grasp.....there's nobody to aim at. Omar bin Laden fills that need. I'm sure Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Powell understand the depth of the terrorist organizations and will do the right thing. Omar bin Laden's death will be a great symbolic victory for the US and a defeat for his followers, after which we will exterminate his fellow sand fleas. Let's help him on his way to that virgin-filled paradise.
In regards to the subject of this thread: It will never happen! bin Laden wants a holy war and will gladly reveal all nations that have contributed to his organization in order to start one. Anybody think the Pakistanis would simply hand over bin Laden to us when they risk bin Laden telling the US how they assisted him in killing our citizens? Believe me, if the Paki's don't kill him first, the Syrians, Saudis, Iraqis, or someone, WILL kill him before we can get to him.
Freespectfully,
PresidentFelon
In the same way, bin Laden is a symbol for us.You are very right, and it is important that we get him. We need his head on a pike (figuratively) to show the people we can kill our enemies.
But again, my worry is that in the minds of the American public, that signifies "game over" when in fact it probably means "game's but barely begun."