Chuck, what do we do during ther 5-10 years it takes to recruit, train, and
*infiltrate* (to the point of becoming confidants) the terrorist groups?

Same question you asked yesterday.
Same anwer. It won't take 5-10 years.
Al Qaida is recruiting very actively right now. There are more Al Qaida members
today than there were in September 2001, so it looks like our current approach
is *not* working, wouldn't you say? If we kill 1000 a month and they recruit
1500, we're going backwards- not forwards.

Didn't Clinton, or someone, sign an executive order making assassinations
illegal?

It doesn't take a constitutional amendment to overturn an executive order-
merely another executive order. I believe it was Bush the First, btw.

We've had presidential aversions to pre-emptive strikes, too. See how easily
that was overturned?