Osama bin Laden has financed the Taliban and is so close to them that he has even married off one of his own daughters to the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Omar. The Taliban have provided refuge for bin Laden since 1994 while terrorist camps producing holy warriors on a holy war against the U.S. have been steadily growing in production. I'm convinced that we need to do something about this. I hope that more permanent lines of aid can be provided for the Afghan people after we gain further control of the area. The people of Afghanistan certainly have my sympathy for the suffering they have been going through for such a long time, but Bush would go down as the idiot of the millinium if he didn't do anything about terrorism, given this opportunity of more world support than we have ever had on the issue. I support the U.S. efforts to destroy terrorist strongholds and believe we must send a clear warning to those that support these networks. I suppose that I will have problems with various steps along the way, but I feel it would be naive to suggest that we should only negotiate without action.