Re: 'Pakistan's Taliban-infested Swat valley'

I am quite aware that the Taliban, and their ilk, will locate near or in civilian areas.

Americans haven't fought a war on home soil since 1865.

I cannot stand by and allow soft emotions to take the blame away from those who desire our destruction and who attack us.

Let's accept your argument. Why not nuke the whole, then? If no number or quality of civilian casualties are an unacceptable cost, then "kill them all - God will know those who are his" [*]. Don't be a hypocrite in one side arguing a self-defense language and a UN mandate and on the other breaking the laws of war for tactical convenience.

The fault lies wholly with the Taliban in this case.

For how long? Would a thousand years, like Hitler wanted, be enough? Or forever, like the Mark of Cain?

Bush did quite a competent job for the first two years or so of war. Anything else than that has been too long a stay.

President Obama has truly done a great deal to bring peace to our troubled world and prevent more attacks upon our soil.

I will admit that he had a much better judgment in Libya than I thought he was having. And that's about the only military intervention issue where I see him being right. (Admittedly, he did inherit many wrong Bush decisions; I am not denying that. But the drone war isn't one of them.)

Or, would you rather that we again, and again, loose over 3,000 souls to terrorists and murderers?

Strawman if you think I am arguing for al Qaeda. If you are arguing causality, then it would follow she should still be arrested in US soil as an enemy combatant.

[*] Most often quoted French: "Tuez-les tous; Dieu reconnaÃ®tra les siens" - Abbot Arnaud Amaury.