"Stilly River Sage" I hate to disappoint you but whoever sits in the White House as President of the United States of America is of absolutely no consequence to me. Irrespective of the result I wouldn't lose one nanosecond of sleep over it.

"meself" - Now please correct me if anything I state here is basically wrong:

Clinton era:
- 1993 Attack on WTC
- 1998 OBL issues fatwah against the US and declares open season on Americans everywhere
- Attacks on US Embassies in East Africa
- Attack on USS Cole

All the above were Al-Qaeda and planning for 9/11 in 2001 started shortly after the Cole was attacked. Clinton was offered bin Laden on a plate and refused the offer. Restrained use of US fire power by Clinton resulted in a few dead goats and destroyed a powdered milk factory in the Sudan.

- 1998 Clinton is advised that Iraq under Saddam Hussein poses greatest threat to US Security. Clinton passes the Iraq Bill through Congress to make regime change in Iraq official US Foreign Policy.

- December 1998, without reference to Congress, or to the UN, Clinton orders UNSCOM out of Iraq and launches an air assault on Iraq - It was called "Desert Fox"

Next President arrives on the scene in 2001 to be greeted later that September by the worst attack by foreign nationals on the mainland of the USA, more people died on 11th September 2001 than died at Pearl Harbour on 7th December 1941. This attack was sponsored by the man that Clinton had let go years before.

December 2001 - Taleban driven from what power they had in Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda dispersed, since that date they have been in hiding in caves and compounds along the Afghan Pakistan border - there they are no real threat to the USA.

2002 USA Administration unlike Clinton goes to the UN and to Congress with regard to Iraqi compliance to UN Security Council Resolutions requiring Iraq to disarm. Because for a second time the President of the USA has been advised that Iraq under Saddam Hussein poses a threat. UN drops the ball and dithers as it so often has done and America acts.

Since then you have not been attacked, because those potential candidates for "rogue state" have been seriously discouraged and those terrorist groups wishing to attack you have been continually on the run in Afghanistan or drawn into fighting battles they cannot win in Iraq.

Tell me "meself" what threat does Osama bin Laden pose today? When was the last time he actually posed a threat to anybody? I think that you will find the answers to those questions as being - None and September 2001.