The claim was the they only respect power, and we've certainly shown our power since 9/11. Now he's hiding in a cave because he doesn't want to be captured or killed, but that's not respect. Our power hasn't made them respect us, and it hasn't made us safer.
Well, I dunno, there KK.
On the one hand you say that we have certainly shown our powers to Osama since 9/11/2001.
But many many of our liberal friends, here, have long insisted that we have totally failed to do that since we went into the wrong place.
I suspect you are simply wrong.
If he is afraid to stick his head outta his gopher hole for fear that it will get shot the **** off, then he does seem to respect our power. If he had no such respect, he would be walking around freely and openly like Saddam used to do.
And as long as he's stuck in a cave, his effectiveness as a "leader" is also clearly hampered. The fuckin' bastard cannot even use the internet or radio transmissions without fear that doing so will bring hellfire down on his filthy flea-infested head.