There's a huge Muslim population ( nearly a billion isn't it? ) that approves of neither the US strikes nor bin-Laden's activities or is barely even aware of what is going on. Bin Laden & Co are trying to convince Muslims everywhere to side with them and fight the infidels. The US is trying to convince people we are not at war with an entire religion. For the moment this seems to be true. So far the US has managed to get some level of assent from the world community and minimize the spread of unrest. Granted those nuclear weapons are probably always accessible but why would the US use them now and guarantee failure? It doesn't make sense. In short, why rush failure? It's already likely enough. There will be plenty of time to use those things later if the entire situation falls apart. That would suck beyond belief compared to the current situation which already sucks pretty terribly in too many ways to count. Mike