31 Americans dead

[Miss Z]

I'll try.... I am going to use Somalia as an example.

Adid was not THE problem, but he was the face of it. Grab him and the problem does not go away as some other wanna be despot takes his place. But for (IMO) political expediency 'getting Adid' was how we were going to define success.

Thanks, Puck. Seems we are indeed on the same page - your thoughts echo what I was trying to get across about Iraq and Afghanistan in my previous post.