bin Laden, schmin Laden!

"I don't know whether we'll find him," Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. "I don't know that it's all that important, frankly."

Hmmm... Osama bin Laden, mastermind of 9/11, murderer of over 3,000 American civilians, is capturing him really not that important? What is going on here? When did we become so lax?

Realistically, Schoomaker may be right. What if we get bin Laden? Then what? Al-Qaeda will most likely not fall apart, mainly because we're concentrating on Iraq instead. But it would do wonders psychologically for the citizens and a big boost to morale for the country and the troops, no?
Then again, perhaps this Administration doesn't want to fall into a habit of actually accomplishing missions.