Hey folks: Did not mean to sound like a groupie when I kicked off the thread. But I also think it's fair to say that W's swagger and tough talk had most folks hopeful that Bin Laden would have been long dead (or captured) before the end of Bush's first term, let alone his SECOND term.

I mean yeah, no-duh it WAS special ops and the SEAL DEV-GRU boyz that deserve credit for this mission. But that is exactly my point: Bush's master plan was to basically go in and blow up the entire Middle East with 20-kiloton MOABs and large scale mechanized cavalry invasions. And seven years later, we had a lot of bomb craters and dead camels and pissed-off Baghdad shopkeepers....but no Osama. There simply was not the same focus on SPECIAL OPS and targeted assasinations of Qaeda leaders that Obama has emphasized ever since taking office. Bush had such a hard-on for getting his licks in on Saddam in Iraq, that it allowed the Taliban to come back to relevance in Afghanistan and Pakistan after they were soundly defeated at the end of 2001.

Sometimes instead of being an indiscriminate cowboy and going in with all guns blazing, it's better to stop and think...and apply your resources (i.e. SEALs, Delta, etc.) in a smarter and more precise fashion. You get more done, with fewer dead camels