Here's the conundrum, GUEST,Beowulf...

Cowboy Bush can't do what he says he wants to do, ie: eliminating terrorism, without the help of a lot of countries besides the US.

However, if he starts trying to take on other countries besides Afghanistan, the other countries that are giving the US support in Afghanistan will start to drop away and some will probably even become enemies themselves. Some countries whose help we need have already warned the US that we should not extend the attacks beyond Afghanistan or they would stop providing help for this effort.

So Cowboy Bush is going to have to decide which is more important... stopping terrorism, or engaging a large portion of the rest of the world in a big war. He can't do both.

He certainly can't stop terrorism by trying to impose the will of the US over the rest of the world whether they like it or not. The only way that would work would be for the US to impose a totalitarian regime of absolute control over all of the nations of the earth. I believe some people have attempted to do this a few times already, without success, during some previous wars.