CarolC,

The measures you mention that are "speeding the process on the way.", can be viewed as temporary. The alternative is to leave things exactly as they were pre-11th September and sit back, wait for and accept the attacks, and resultant casualties, for these attacks will occur irrespective of what President is in office.

While you, and others, in this forum seem quite content to accept that situation, whoever assumes the responsibility of the office of the President of the United States cannot. Your enemy is small, mobile and difficult to identify. Your enemy will use the freedom's, they so much despise, to their advantage in assisting in the planning and execution of their attacks. Your crimes, by the way, used to justify the attacks on innocents are:

1. The presence of infidels (American troops) on Saudi Arabian soil.

2. That American citizens pay taxes that are used to support these infidels and provide subsidies to Israel.

To your enemy it does not matter what you do in the future, you as an entire nation, have been adjudged and found guilty, this predates by years, any action taken by your current President or his administration.