bin Laden bin smokin' the hash?

Sorry, Opus. Good point.

Haley - go to google news. CNN. Any of the news sites.

Yeah I think this falls into the category of "don't negotiate with terrorists." 

For those who said they missed it, check just about any major online news site.

For everyone else, it is an (occasional) tradition in Islam to offer a truce before an attack.  I think a few news networks are beginning to pick up on this fact.

bts

I disagree, Jim. I think you can negotiate. When he's incarcerated in a US federal prison, the guard can say "Now Osama, if you clean your toilet today, I'll bring you pudding with your dinner. Would you like vanilla or chocolate?"

Not just Islam, Brett, but good old fashioned psychological war ploy. "See... if you had just cooperated with us, you wouldn't suffer. You have no one to blame but yourself." Mind-f'in the victims..

Heh. 

I was gonna say something, but decided not to go down that road again. 

Of course it does!  And for the hurricanes too!

Using his construct, it follows logically that he would be to blame. Or course, he'll just blame the Democrats or the Republicans or his limited Presidential powers or the media or the full moon's effect on his mood for why it's not his fault.

I'm not into blaming him or anyone else. If we lose lives in the US, it will be the result of determined zealots carefully planning, daringly executing and having a tremendous amount of luck. It will be a tragedy for all of us, not just the Republicans or Democrats.

I would not want to be in POTUS' shoes. All you can do is everything you can do and that will still not be enough. Imagine facing your limitations and the great cost to the country for these limitations. That's gotta suck.

Aren't you in college?! What's with the misspellings???? Spell Checker!!!

There's just no excuse for this sort of spelling.

Sorry, tyrant, this spelling outburst has just been looking for someone to bend over the knee.

Just my humble opinion as a former soldier.....you can't win any war if you're not willing to get your hands dirty and keep them dirty until it's over. For the record I'm not for war on any front. But there are things worse than war:

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
John Stuart Mill

War is an ugly, ugly thing. They decapitate one of our soldiers/citiizens whatever....we decapitate everyone we have in captivity with no due process or regard for any sort of previously agreed upon conventions and bowl their heads down Bahgdad Blvd.  If you don't agree, No hard feelings. Stay home and let people who do understand handle it without reservation. The idea that this approach to war is not okay is what renders the phrase "modern warfare" an oxymoron. Take the gloves off and b!tch slap them back to the stone age or go home in a box. Period. Unfortunately you have people who have no stomach for war making decisions to go to war and then saying "well, we'll kill these people but not these people because we don't want to piss off our friends". No army in any civilization has ever won a war by being nice or politically correct or even diplomatic. War is brutality applied to achieve means that we're not reached by failed politicians.

Warfare is simple. The road to war should be complex, and should be followed exhausting every possible means of diplomatic resolution. The road out is one lane, one-way. The road out of war has been clear for thousands of years: it runs right over the top of your enemy. When you stop short, when you enter a war without clear objectives, or you enter a war and try to apply rules that don't jive with the objective of total victory......you're....well....you're us at this point.

I concur, this is a new age of warfare. To conventionally attack this beast you have to up the budget and training of our SF. Trust me it will be a SF soldier who gets him before a missile.