P'fffft Terror War Support if bin Laden Killed or Captured

[RamboLiberal]

I don't like Smerconish - but he has an interesting point and perspective here on why Bush doesn't think much about the guy. BTW, the 45 civilians who got an inside look at Centcom - were they all conservative lackeys?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-smerconish/hunting-bin-laden_b_32524.html

Why would we respect Pakistani borders to the exclusion of finding and killing the most wanted man in the world? Because as weak as Musharaf might be in assisting us in finding bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, he is probably the best we can hope for in Pakistani leadership. Force his hand and we might lead to his undermining, and end up with a friend to radical Islam running the country.

There is another consideration. More than one individual with whom I spoke - and no one that I have named here - raised with me the question of what would happen to public support for the war against radical Islam if we were to find and kill bin Laden and al-Zawahiri? Would the American people then expect the military to pack up and go home, they wanted to know from me, who spends 17.5 hours a week answering phone calls from the public?

Again, I need to be blunt. No one ever told me that we are not hunting bin Laden because killing him would cause Americans to want to close up shop in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But this possible ramification is absolutely on the minds of our warriors as support for the war in Iraq dissipates.

I pray my gut is wrong. I hope that somewhere in Pakistan there are some bad-assed special ops guys wearing veils and burkas moving through villages, cutting deals, using sophisticated spy gear and doing whatever is necessary to bring the bastards' lives to the most heinous of endings. Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are mass murderers responsible for 6,000 deaths - 3,000 on 9/11, and another 3,000 from events tied to that. The search must never end.