If the left had the balls for it, we would have just nuked the Afghanistan/Pakistan border after 9/11 and we wouldn't be where we are.
It's my big criticism with the Bush administration. Sadly, we are fighting the war on terror like we fought Vietnam - too much concern for what the media and polls and the anti-war folks are saying.
If you're going to fight a war, you do it how Truman did it in WWII - the only way to win is the complete and utter destruction of your enemy.
We should have nuked the Afghan/Pakistan border on September 12, 2001, but then you've got the pussies on the left screaming for impeachment, and the other half of the equation is that you open pandora's box as far as the nuclear scenario goes.
It sucks but it is what it is. The sad thing is if my gut is right several years from now a nuke is going to go off in an American city, possibly several, as the penultimate 'event' dreamed up by bin Laden.
When that day comes, we will respond in kind by wiping out any Islamofascist regions we know of that can be taken out with nukes. And the reason I say it's sad is twofold.
One is that a lot of Americans are going to have to die at the hand of radical Islam for people in this country, including those on BOTH sides of the aisle in D.C., to get the hint (of course D.C. would probably be target numero uno, so that point may be moot).
The second is that it could have been prevented if we would have gone for the kill shot on the Afghan/Pakistan border when we knew all the assholes were in the same area.
In radical Islam, we are facing the same ed up idealism that the world ultimately had to wipe out with WWII - Naziism.
But too many people in the world today are too PC, too much of pussies, to recognize it and work towards doing something about it.