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We could end this one tomorrow, the same way we ended that one, but I'd prefer not, Helen.

Not to mention, WW2 was an entirely different form of warfare. The enemy had homelands, capitals, infrastructure and industry that could be bombed to defeat them. They met us on the battlefield in open, set piece battle. This enemy hides among civilians, dresses as civilians, is part of no government nor based in any large scale fashion in any one country, it is not dependent on logistical routes, supply chains, industries or natural resources it needs to keep on fighting which we can take out to crippled them. They rarely engage our forces openly in battle and largely engages in terror attacks on civilians and sissified stand off attacks like IEDs when they do engage our forces.

There is no Al Qaeda capital that can be bombed to ruin like Berlin or Tokyo and no civilian population that can be tired out through constant bombing raids on their cities such that pressure can be brought to bear on the enemy itself to disengage. Nor is there a civilian economic structure that can be destroyed that would dissable Al Qaeda.

To try to compare WW2 to this war, and frankly any war, and to use that as a benchmark as to how long asymetrical warfare should last is the height of stupidity and sloppy thinking, which I suppose is Helen Thomas' stock in trade really.

...it is not dependent on logistical routes, supply chains, industries or natural resources it needs to keep on fighting which we can take out to crippled them.

This would mean that the enemy is resupplied with men and material from thin air. I suggest that the best use of troops would be to seal off the boarder between Iraq and Iran, Syria and Iraq. How? By declaring a no-travel zone 5 miles wide along each. Any plane, train, or automobile that crosses into either zone is destroyed. As proof, I would order bombing runs up and down the five-mile no-travel zone for the first month to clear the zone of any obstacles that make motion difficult to detect. Tell Iran and Syria that Iraq is not interested in trade of any sort, not even bananas, nothing. Nothing crosses the boarder. The enemy forces within Iraq would suffocate within six months. I am just disappointed that the same intelligence services that cannot find Bin Laden cannot seem to find the large cache of weapons the enemy is drawing upon to construct IEDs, etc.

Al Qaida does have realty, cities, etc. But they are owned by teh Iranians, the Saudi, nad smaller segments are owned in Damascus, Tripoli, etc.

The Islamo-terrorists are funded by those in hte places mentioned in the above paragraph. As President Bush so well said, if you support a terrorist, you are a terrorist.

Nuke 'em all - Nuke 'em now!