"Just a measure of the desperation of some to run down USA."
The continued practice of using chemical weapons on civilians makes it clear that while the weapons may have changed, the practice of killing civilians has not - that is why the behaviour of the US is still an issue.
The use of imprisonment without trial in intolerable, inhuman conditions, the use of torture and the practice of shipping out 'suspects' to places where extreme torture will be used is further evidence that the US is sinking even deeper into being a terrorist state.
This is what you are supporting - openly by your defence of the act of bombing civilians and tacitly by your continued silence on the US's record on human rights.
Far from being a safer place, bin Laden's place as spitirual leader was re-filled within a week, with a further 3 candidates waiting in the wings should their services be called upon.
One of the most positive changes to have taken place recently in the Arab world has been the 'Arab Spring', the demands for democracy which has drawn many hundreds of thousands out on to the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria... All this has been put at risk by the cowboy behaviour of the US, the contempt shown by them for the sovereignty of Pakistan and the double standards being applied towards the calls for reforms in these countries.
Some of the most repressive opposition to the demands for change has come from the Bahrain regime (30-odd protesters killed, 60-odd injured, and two sentenced sentenced to death for their part in the protests), yet far from eliciting one word of condemnation by either Britain or America, some of the crack troops that put down the protests so viciously were still being trained by the British Army at Sandhurst long after the protests had begun.   
Far from our gaining much needed support in the Arab countries, it is facts like these that will drive the people who are now demanding reforms right into the arms of the Muslim extremists.
Jim Carroll