First off, you have to realize that we as a nation have been fleeced.
Osama Bin Laden is most likely dead (as said by Benizir Bhutto shortly before her assassination). George Bush himself said "I really don't think much about him anymore."
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Wasn't that one of the MAIN reasons we invaded Afghanistan?
So you have to ask yourself...how then, if he's alive, has he managed to evade the most advanced military in the world for 7 years?
Because we don't want to find him if he's even alive.
The moment we find him, people will gear down from war mode and feel like they have some measure of justice from 9/11.
Sounds like a good deal right? Kill Bin Laden, justice is served...
But one little problem...
War is profitable to those who pull the strings behind it. This is NOT a war on Terror. It is a war of GREED and POWER.
Terrorism itself is such an ambiqous label, you could wage war for 100 years and still have no clue exactly who you are fighting against. In WWII we fought the Nazis and Japanese Empire. We knew our enemies because they were physical forces that opposed us.
But Terrorism is an idea, not a force or nation. How do you defeat an idea? You don't. Terrorism in all it's forms are in fact, a part of human nature. When you wage a war on an idea, you gaurentee that it is unwinnable because your enemy (an idea) is undefeatable. No matter how many enemies you kill, terrorism is still an idea, and more will rise up.
We have been fleeced.