I think building a coalition is critical here. As for world opinion not mattering... it should. Everything we do has huge impacts world wide and if we don't take that into consideration, we'll find ourselves alone in the cold. Remember, US polocy is what atracted the attention of bin Laden and his group, everything else they've tacked on there is dressing on the cake.

In my mind it's pretty mindless to fight terrorism and not try to bring the people of the world together on it. The less polarized the mid east is on the issue, the smaller the group of individuals that we will have to fight.

The bottom line is you solve problems by working with people.