The Taliban has declared war. That's a bigger target than bin Laden, and presumably easier to hit.

Even so, a government in a place like that is less a political infrastructure than a collection of mouth-foaming f***wits. We can obliterate their buildings, but they can just opt to be elsewhere. Hell, they can do what they do with an army tent, a PC a shortwave radio set up for packet Internet, and a Saudi billionaire's debit card.

Which reminds me - can we do anything to seize bin Laden's bank accounts? Cut off their air supply.

We might attack their building without warning, in an attempt to catch them flatfooted, but then there's the problem of non-combatant casualties. And no, I don't regard members of this kind of government as non-combatants. They had their chance to be neutral, and they turned it down.

Ultimately, we may need to invade, after destroying as much as possible of their ability to resist by precision bombing. I'm thinking we let the Pakistanis handle that bit. In exchange, we let them keep the whole damn country. Plus sweeten the deal with some financial aid, because the country probably isn't worth much to them.

The mouth-foamers will look silly yammering about American imperialism when the country is still owned by Muslims. That won't stop them, but they'll look silly.