Does anyone disagree with our military strategy?

GP,

First a side note, then a response to your point. The asses that are the masses of the American public needed to see some sort of action, purely political means was not going to placate Joe public who sits in his infinite wisdom and condemns the attacks as having no basis ect. (at least everyone on this board acknowledges that the US has in a sense helped to create the problem with our Middle Easten policies).

Now in reply to your post, military and political aspirations seem to go hand in hand for me with this situation. How many of the opposition (to the Taliban) leaders would be willing to get their troops riled up if the US did not show a clear presence and military support of their efforts? In order to achieve that political end (internal Afghan support), the US had to clear the way and show that they did mean business and were willing to help out militarily as well as politically. I.E. That we were not going to just offer vocal support as we did to the Iraqis who now find themselves in prisons or refugee camps because the US withdrew support and left them to Sadamn.

The military effort also, at this point, helps to keep Al Quaida (sp) on the defensive which slows down any attacks that they might have planned. And buys the US time to investigate financial avenues and hopefully cut them off there as well.

In my humble opinion, the military and political goals are like washing your hands. The left and the right have to be doing it to each other in order to get everything clean so that we can go bakc and eat dinner in peace. Not dogmatic, but hopefully a thought.