[The_Rorschach]

I don't see it as a matter of good versus bad, just protecting outr own interests. They aren't fire bombing McDonalds, they aren't boycotting American products, or setting fire to our distrobution warehouses. They are bombing targets of civilian congregation. Their aim doesn't seem to be disrupting American influence, it looks as though they desire only to take American lives.

You're right. Terrorists, by and large, don't operate in easily targetable environments. They aren't Cobra, and they don't have a secret mountain fortess. That is why we employ federal agencies, like the Israeli Mossad, the American CIA, and InterPol, and whomever, to root them out of their hiding places.

I would prefer more incisive strikes. like when we took out the training camps in Libya a decade ago. Special Forces moving in, finding targets, moving out. . .But the cost of such precision is American lives and since Vietnam that is a politically unacceptable. We can;t just win, we need to win flawlessly. But whether we use the CIA, or USMC, we are still at war, its just being fought in a different fashion.