With the anniversary of 9/11 much as been made of the mistakes of the past. There has been a great deal of focus on the fact that President Clinton, missed several opportunities to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden, of this there can be no doubt. This fixation with Osama clouds the fact that with or without the terror mastermind there would still be a war on terror.

Was Clinton derelict in his responsibilities as commander in chief? Most certainly, but we mustn’t forget that the rise of Islamic terror pre-dates Osama Bin Laden and even today, may radicals are operating around the globe independent of the Al Qaeda leader.

The war on terror is more than one man, even if Bin Laden were captured tomorrow it would serve as little more than a psychological victory, not unlike the capture of Saddam Hussein or Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The war with radical Islam will continue for the foreseeable future no matter how many individual henchmen are captured or eliminated and it will continue until either America capitulates or they do.