This group declared war against us, therefore they need to be hunted, hindered, and removed from the food chain. Not just to the point of irrelevance, but to the point of unconditional surrender.

There are too many of these priorities that are too obvious (or vague) to disagree with. Prediction: Over 95% of the users will endorse this.

Those that oppose will do so because of a technicality:
—Who really is Al Qaeda?
—What about other groups?
—Why destroy, why not rehabilitate?
—Why not skip the disrupting and go straight for the destroying?

99% of the US wants to find a punish the terrorists responsible for 9/11. Far fewer Americans want to get tangled up in a deadly & expensive 10 year nation-building exercise in Afghanistan/Pakistan.

I support catching/killing Bin Laden and his senior lieutenants (of course), but I think it’s counter productive to try to eliminate every ‘potential Al Qaeda member’ from the globe. You’ll unavoidably get collateral damage, kill civilians, and inadvertently recruit more terrorists.

We will never catch ’em all. I propose we analyze our security processes and simplify things so that it is very difficult for any evil entity to get away with doing anything on our soil.