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Am I the only one here who agrees with Thompson's response? He's absolutely right--answering that question intelligently would be almost impossible. Do you really want to hear him spout the usual nonsense: "Diane, I would have our special forces teams scouring the tribal regions and blah blah blah."
It's frustrating to see Americans on the one hand complaining that our presidential election process seems geared only toward finding out if candidate X has been prepped adequately to glibly answer questions, and on the other, lambasting candidates when they don't have glib responses to questions. And this is a stupid question. Aside from allocating more or less money/manpower to the hunt for bin Laden, how much do you really think the president has to do with catching him? It's operational level stuff.
(For the record, no, I'm not a Republican, and I don't like Thompson. But picking on him for answering that question the way he did is just juvenile and counterproductive.)
