What Good Are They?

Word was that Bin Laden was back in Tora Bora, so:

For three days and nights — between Aug. 14 and 16 — U.S. and Afghanistan forces pounded the mountain caves in Tora Bora, the same caves where Osama Bin Laden had hidden out and then fled in late 2001 after U.S. forces drove al Qaeda out of Afghanistan cities. Ultimately, however, U.S. forces failed to find Bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, even though their attacks left dozens of al Qaeda and Taliban dead.

For almost six years our intelligence community sits around, intercepting everybodys radio messages, reading everybodys e-mails, listening to everybodys phone calls, waiting for Bin Laden to expose himself, and then they miss him again.

What about our multi-billion dollar internationally operating spy agency, the CIA? Don't they have a few trained operatives that could just sneak into Pakistan and take this creep out?

If they don't - or can't - What the hell good are they? Why are we spending all that money on them? So they can just sit on their asses by the thousands in their great big expensive building and stare at computer screens? And network? And play online games?

Great deal for them - no results required - but a really bad deal for the rest of us.

Maybe - for just a fraction of the cost - we could hire out the KGB to get the job done, and then throw these computer dandies out into the street, which is where highly paid spies are supposed to be in the first place.