Better to blow up an asprin plant trying to get some bad guys than blowing up two countries killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people...

Plus, had the US had the technology in the 90's that it has now then Clinton would more than likely gotten bin Laden... The bad guys have adapted very well to the older technology...

But alot of this has nothin' to do with technology but the wrong-headedness of blowin' folks up in the first place... The US is in a unique position to act as a model of pluralism where folks get along... I thought we did a purdy good job after the Shah was ousted in accepting Iranians into the country as our neigbors and citizens... Since then I don't think we have done as well and alot of that is because the right wing has used immigrants as whippin' boys to lather up their base and not only set back our little pluralistic experiement but also piss off alot of other folks around the world... This is one area that the right cannot blame the left for the left has been far more tolerant...

B~