The New Road

London bombing

This morning at least 40 people died during the morning commute in London because of four separate bomb attacks. Al Qaeda is taking responsibility.

After almost four years of delay since 9/11 can't we find and kill Osama bin Laden? Porter Goss says he knows exactly where he is. And given what we know that looks like the tribal areas on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. But we won't go in because Pakistan has nuclear weapons and to take out Osama, who is a hero in that area, would critically destabilize an already shaky regime. So the net result is that Osama can act with impunity.

With true leadership in the White House we could in fact, take Osama out, then invade Pakistan if required to stabalize it. But for two reasons that doesn't work. First, because we don't have true leadership in the White House. And second, all of our forces are tied up fighting in the Iraq quagmire.

It is so frustrating. Wanting to actually fight against terrorism but instead seeing our resources drained on non-sensical crap. I remember being criticized because I was in favor of using a small force to go into Afghanistan and just attack Osama directly. Popular wisdom held that invading the country was the right way to go and that a small force, police action, style job was gutless, or some such shit. Now we see clearly the result, four years later Osama is still on the loose, the situation in the Middle East is much more dangerous and innocent people continue to die.

What I hear this morning on the right is absolute stupidity. It's all talk about how this shows that Al Qaeda is still a genuine threat and that pulling out of Iraq would be a mistake. What? Iraq isn't helping us win the fight with Al Qaeda. If anything it's making the situation worse. While four years on the war president knows where Osama is but won't go and get him.