At least that part of Al Qaeda that’s still in Afghanistan – and their Taliban allies. They must be exterminated – while every other group in the world is fertile ground for Obama’s charm.

Also it’s part of the Iraq war was a mistake meme of the left.

That is, the left argument runs, 1) we needed to put more troops into Afghanistan so that we could have caught Bin Laden at Tora Bora; 2) Bush shifted to Iraq for malign reasons (blood for oil, neocon strategy, Oedipal conflict [finishing the job that GHWB didn't finish]) before finishing the job in Afghanistan; 3) as I indicated above, the obsession with personality that the left has, that if we can catch Bin Laden that the whole terrorism movement will fall apart, as though he’s the Fagan that orchestrates the network indispensibly.

Also, as I noted, it’s also an extension of BDS and that if Obama can do the task that Bush failed at, this will prove how bad a leader that Bush was, and Obama can crow about how he captured the BIG GUY and struck a fatal blow against those misguided people who have perverted the Religion of Peace, so that we can all go home again with a Mission Accomplished.

It’s like the old joke about the man searching for his lost keys who rather than search in the darkness in the region where he dropped them, he headed over to look for them under the street lamp because that’s where there’s light so that he can see more easily.

Killing him, though well deserved, will have no lessening effect on radical islamic terrorism. If he were killed we would probably see a spike in terror attacks but his vision of a Caliphate where his brand of militant, radical islam rules supreme, stretching across the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe and eventually America, is shared by too many for the death of any one person to stop it.
The followers of AQs ideals are in it only for themselves, they seek to increase their own personal power. Much like our own leftists, if all America’s wealth is going to be re-distributed, it is better to be one of the distributors. For radical islamists if the world is to be ruled from the barrel of a gun it is better to be one of those holding the gun.
They both use the same people as fodder to advance their agandas. The leftists have created the entitlement class to unfailingly provide them with a base of voters that can be counted on to provide the votes necessary to remain in office and pass the legislation necessary to keep the entitlement class entitled.
Radical Islamists use the poor, unemployed young men and women of islamic countries, and increasingly our own country, by spurring them to action with the same class warfare rhetoric the left uses. Evil rich America, the downtrodden are told, is hoarding its wealth and stealing from you! They must be destroyed so that you can enjoy the wealth they now possess. The downtrodden masses, much like the entitlement class here in America, don’t realize when they attack a 4 star hotel in Islamibad or destroy a power plant or cell phone tower in Afghanistan that they are destroying the wealth that America and the world is trying to share with them. So they blow it up, kill dozens, drive more investment away and help to seal their own fate, keeping themselves downtrodden or entitled and remaining useful tools for OBL, AQ, the Tamil Tigers, MILF, or BHO and san fran nan.
The only way to win the War on Teror is to take their tools away.

but if GWB had had his head in a jar in his desk drawer, he couldn’t have told anyone. If he had, the cry to bring all the troops back home would have been irresistable.