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.

You still can't get the point. If a country has a government that supports terrorists, al Qaeda or otherwise, Interpol and policemen are useless. Afghanistan fell into this category. So does Syria. So did Iraq.

Try and get this into your head: When a government supports terrorism, that government's police and intelligence assets are on the side of the terrorists.

Yes, look at Pakistan. Theoretically on our side, yet that government has washed its hands of its western provinces, and al Qaeda and the Taliban are growing and thriving there. And that's just the government being neutral.