[Urbane Guerrilla]

The attaching of too much importance to bin Laden's person is the most vivid mark of strategic amateurs imaginable. You can't personify the Islamofascist movement in one single man, and Islamofascism is not balanced atop bin Laden's shoulders. Your insistence that this is the supreme objective is wrong, for it will divert us from actually defeating Islamofascism, the broader threat. It is notable with you that you always and uniformly advocate the mistaken strategies that will lose America the war. Why you have such a resentment towards your mother country, tw, you can and will never explain, yet you must explain if you wish to redeem your soul.

It is more important to see Islamofascism destroyed and bin Laden still living out in the wilds than to get bin Laden and assume or expect that that will do the job of defeating Islamofascism. The way wars usually work, especially in modern centuries, is that the enemy's armies must be defeated and sinews of war destroyed, before it even gets possible to make the enemy's leaders captive. Wars have an attritional element.

Bin Laden is a cherry on top, and like the cherry not in himself much significance in the overall downfall of Islamofascism no matter when he's captured or dies. His intel value? -- who knows really?

Now, tw: That is the true and the right answer to the question you make such a big amateurs' deal of. I know you will not be able to accept or acknowledge the rightness of this answer, but that is just a sign I've got it right. You never knew the right, not in human affairs. You lack the knack, and it appears you have since childhood.