Mike, at this point almost three years after 9/11, it's hard to know exactly where bin Laden is and even harder to decide what to do about it. He is probaby in Pakistan, or maybe Saudi Arabia, perhaps even someplace like Indonesia. More decisive action immediately after 9/11 probably could have pinned him down. But Bush basically let him get away like most of Al Quada got away. Meanwhile, Afghanistan is still the same hellhole it aways was even without the Taliban in supreme control and our half-assed invasion of Iraq with insufficient troops dooms us to a quagmire there too.
Trying to decide what to do from this point forward is tough given the fact that we can't change the past. If we are afraid to make an incursion into Pakistan's tribal areas to get him, then we might as well just throw our hands up and admit that terrorists won't be brought to swift justice if they hide in other countries that we are afraid to mess with for whatever reason. This sets a dangerous precedent.
Meanwhile, looking at the current batch of arch-criminals who currently run our country makes me worried for our future. The U.S. is probably still the greatest country in the world, but any notion I had that we lived in a democracy where the rule of law prevailed was shattered over the last few years. Now it seem more like a third world banana republic, with powerful families passing on power to each other; nepotism and cronyism at the highest levels of government; rigged and stolen elections; and conflicts of interest abounding. As far as I am concerened, G.W. Bush is a grade-A moron, the kind of C-average fratboy you might have went to college with who coudn't pass the stripper quiz on Howard Stern despite his degree. And if even one tenth of the negative things that have been written about him are true, he ought to not just lose the election (again), but he should actually be impeached and dare I say it, be arrested for treason.
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