... until Pakistan clears out the Al Qaeda/Taliban members/sympathizers in their military, this is the only way that is going to work. I hate to say it, but history has shown it to be that way.

One is that Osama bin Laden resided under the obvious protection of the Pakistani officer corps, only a couple hundred yards from that country's officer academy.

The other is that after Dick Cheney offended the Pakistanis on a Monday, someone had a suicide bomber waiting for his secret arrival at an airbase in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

That means that the Pakistanis revealed Cheney's itinerary to the "terrorists" almost as quickly as they themselves knew of it, and had an asset in place and ready before he even arrived. That's pretty much the definition of state-sponsored terrorism, even if Cheney was a military target.

It makes one wonder how independent of the Pakistanis the Taliban really is, and if it ever actually did operate outside of their oversight and control.

and those who live by the sword, die by the sword.

Until the Pakistani military and ISI are made irrelevant, they will continue to use terror. That is the only way Pakistan knows how to fight. In a conventional war, they get their asses kicked.

So we know they were very, very bad people. Thousands of miles away. Armed certainly with very bad attitudes and maybe worse. Push a button, and now we're all much, much safer. Don't you feel safer? Well? Quit weeping over the dead, you wimp, and answer the question! Oh, very funny: "The United States Constitution was found among the casualties." I suppose you think you're very clever. Now, pick up that flag and get waving it, dammit. Still a few drones flying around, you know.

It's not that we're harboring terrorists who want to perpetuate attacks on Pakistan, it's that our government is.

A Pakistani parliamentary committee tells us to stop, so we send in more drones. I guess we want to ensure that our endless war never ends.