>I could suggest that the aggressive options favoured by you are an equally boneheaded option and also about giving some people a kick ass good feeling whatever the consequences. If there had been success at Tora Tora do you think that would have solved anything ?

But of course. Once Bin Laden and 40 thieves got their asses kicked and their violins busted, every disenfranchised poor family anywhere in the world would forget how their soil is poisoned, how everybody makes more money on their oil but their own country, how their last dictator was big friends with the IMF and the World Bank, who looked the other way when he took almost all the money and then vanished just before the coup but left them with a 100 year debt, everything would immediately be forgotten and the whole third world would sit with GW2B and sing Kumbayah.