I understand geostrategic concerns are complicated..and time intervals need to be weighed before a sudden decision is arrived at...yet..
How many more U.S. citizens must perish or be maimed by the Likes of Hizbullah and Hamas..or by Arafat ..before someone says enough..and just goes on them till they reel in derision from the Rightfull wrath of a angered nation?
Sometimes methinks bombs are falling on the wrong co-ordinates.
I STILL say that we ought to hold that meteorite they worship hostage with an ICBM. Either the terrorism stops, or Mecca is a smoking, radioactive crater for a thousand years. Call it 'containment theory'.