[dbcooper]

From a moral standpoint it ought to have happened under George H.W. Bush, but he legally did all that was permissible. His mandate was not for regime change, either by the U.N. or by his coalition of allies.
And in Afghanistan, it is my reasoned conclusion that getting Bin Laden was never priority 1. It was emotionally, but politically and militarily the objective was to remove the Taliban and neutralize Afghanistan as a base of international terrorist activity, which has been mostly achieved. The disruption by the Taliban and Al Qaeda has been relatively confined to the Af-Pak theatre and will remain so as long as we have the political will to sustain that fight.
In other words, with guilt-plagued leftists in charge, not too long.