[TomSportsHack]

As long as he is allowed to hide in Pakistan, we'll never capture him or kill him unless we get extremely lucky. If we could get some boots on the ground and drive him out of the mountainous region bordering Afghanistan/Pakistan, we could probably capture or kill him. However, we need India involved in this as they are serious about taking down terrorism, while Pakistan talks the talk but wont walk the walk.

Let me borrow the words from an e-mail from a friend of mine who's active-duty Army and staring an Afghan/Pakistan deployment square in the face:

Adding 30,000 is not enough. Adding 100,000 might be enough. Bring big *** bags of money (that's the Special Forces community's best weapon, anyway). Pay the warlords who helped us kick their ***** the first time. || The Army we have -- despite Clinton's efforts to turn us into a lighter, more mobile force (which I'm not criticizing, at all) -- is built to stop the Ruskies crossing Poland. For example, our (the Army's) best aircraft, the Apache, is a tank destroyer. We don't have enough special ops folks to cover a country that size, anyway. Like you said, special ops teams don't engage. They buy fighters and support them with airstrikes (and do a god ****ed good job at that, by the way) and guns.

Afghanistan is mainly going to be a blacksuit war. The CIA's leading the way in that.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...03110.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world...aeda_.html
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/09/...qani_n.php

Pakistan's not going to like this development at all, but then they were mad we did anything at all to upset their neighborhood apple cart. If they'd taken a more proactive role, maybe they wouldn't be worried about exactly who's hiding in walled Karachi mansions today.

The single best thing we can do is take advantage of the Middle East and Muslim world's simmering resentment toward al Qaeda:

Additionally, Al Qaeda and its affiliates have killed thousands of Muslim civilians elsewhere since September 11: hundreds of ordinary Afghans killed every year by the Taliban, dozens of Saudis killed by terrorists since 2003, scores of Jordanians massacred at a wedding at a U.S. hotel in Amman in November 2005. Even those sympathetic to Al Qaeda have started to notice. "Excuse me Mr. Zawahiri but who is it who is killing with Your Excellency's blessing, the innocents in Baghdad, Morocco and Algeria?" one supporter asked in an online Q&A with Al Qaeda's deputy leader in April that was posted widely on jihadist websites. All this has created a dawning recognition among Muslims that the ideological virus that unleashed September 11 and the terrorist attacks in London and Madrid is the same virus now wreaking havoc in the Muslim world.