No you're not.
Both Mary Anne and I and several others were willing to let the individual countries apprehend Al Queda members, using their intelligence agencies, police forces and Interpol.

That's how you go after criminals in their hideouts ....very carefully.

>"I note that no other nation is showing us how to do it "right" when it comes to eliminating terrorists from havens in sympathetic nations. "

Well, let's take a GOOD look at Pakistan, and how they do it when they are supposed to be "our friends".
There's too much of a black market for opium and weapons in the Middle East. A lot of it is run through the leaders and their embassies. What you have is a bunch of elected and unelected criminal officials running lucrative businesses on the black market. Throw in a bunch of oil and there you have it.