Some accept the view that if mass murder at first doesn't work, then more murderers are needed.

Of course, that kind of logic is insane. The people who think that more killing is the way to bring peace are no different than the murderers who brought down the towers. Their "religion" or ideology may use different buzzwords and rationales or justifications, but the result is the same. Those who want to murder the Taliban or the nasty Afghans or whoever they think this policy of mass murder will exterminate are no different at all from the subhuman haters of 9/11. Just as crazed, just as deluded. Just as depraved. The fact that no Afghans were among that group of killers matters not at all when fear and hate turn people blind to reality. "Just kill them, kill them all until they submit and behave properly." Yeah, that'll work.

More blood.
More suffering.
More Fear.
More hate.
More blind ignorance.

More hate.
More blood.
More enemies.
More suffering.

More Fear. More hate. More hate. More suffering. More ignorance. More blood.

And the death merchants will rub their hands in glee, chuckle, gloat and pleasure themselves with million dollar orgies in hundred million dollar homes and yachts.

And laugh. And laugh. And laugh.

military operations there.

Omar is in Karachi. Al Qaida is in the tribal region. Bombs won't help there either.

Afghanistan needs peacekeepers and infrastructure. And a better option than being a puppet of the ISI.

One will be killed by any possible means, and the other protected with their own lives.

The easy thing at the outset would have been to use the criminality of the bin Laden gang to assert that our right to justice outweighed the protected status al Qaeda had earned as collaborators with the Pushtun fighters (with US blessings and support) in the anti-Soviet resistance.

Much harder to accomplish now, but it is the only path that has any chance at all. Payoffs, corruption and bribes may give the appearance of a temporary accommodation, but the demand for retaliatory justice for all the murders and maimings will persist and continue to intensify.