Is the “professional” interpretation of Sec. Clinton’s recent statement that it is a warning to Pakistan? That is, either they deliver Bin Laden, or we will begin targeting the Pakistani officials helping him?

Even if we do eliminate Bin Laden or Mullah Omar, it will in no way end the escalating war with radical Islam. Bin Laden is a symptom of that radicalism, not the cause. We do not have the political will to strike the cause itself, which would be too expensive and messy. Instead, as Wretchard says, we will manage the crisis, until the Islamofascists do detonate a nuke in NYC. At that point, the combined toll of death and destruction from that attack, and our even more devastating response, will prove that it would have been far better to have acted now, than wait.