I guess I should have just stuck to the facts that I find significant:
We have not captured or killed Bin Laden.
We have not captured or killed Zawahiri.
We have not captured or killed the anthrax mailer.
Al Qaeda has more supporters than it did and Al Qaeda now has regular access to the media (something it never did). Zawahiri thinks that at least half the battle is in the media. And so thinking public relations would help. He certainly is.
Had we sent sufficient troops to Tora Bora, we might have avoided much of the mess of the last half decade.
Do you really think the death or capture of Bin Laden means anything more than vengeance for us?
Don’t get me wrong. I believe in payback. That is why I liked the concept of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, drawing his final pathetic breaths looking up at a US Special Forces solder who is standing with his foot on what remained of the hand Zarqawi used to behead poor Nicholas Berg.
But do you really think for one single solitary moment that what happens in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan has anything to do with whether Bin Laden is dead or alive?
For the record, no way Bin Laden should be taken alive if they find him, IF he is actually still alive (which I am not convinced of)
If he IS alive and is captured, he should shot in situ, and his body anonymously buried under a ton of rubble. The Islamofacists who worship him as a God can go on believing for years that Bin Laden is out there looking over them and scheming, waiting for the right moment to strike again. Hopefully, they will get bitter when it doesn’t happen, and when they draw their final breaths, hopefully in the same circumstances Zarqawi did, it will dawn on them that what they have been doing all these years is not some kind of fight of justice, but a simple bloodthirsty pagan worship of death.
The simple truth is that it makes no difference to liberals and those appeasers who follow their liberal “religion”, because that is surely what it is.
They said we couldn’t claim victory because we hadn’t captured or killed Saddam and his boys. We did.
They said we couldn’t claim victory because we hadn’t captured or killed Zarqawi. We did.
They said we couldn’t claim victory because Fallujah was not subdued. The US Marines subdued it.
They said we couldn’t claim victory because Anbar Province was unruly. They are having unification parades with police and soldiers.
They said we couldn’t claim victory because the “surge” would never work. It is working.
The bottom line is: To liberalism and its adherents, there is nobody that the US can kill or capture, no country that can be liberated that justifies in the eyes of liberals the desire to defend ourselves. To them, all war of any kind is unjustified. They will have to forgive the rest of us for not meekly offering up our necks for their knives.