We Will Not Rest: Al Kaeda in Nigeria?

We will not rest until the plotters are found.
This sounds like "we'll smoke them out." An official
pronouncement. But will we in fact rest before
the plotters are found? Is this a mea culpa
suggesting that there is, in fact, a war on
terror and that such a context is in fact
the only feasible way to combat terrorism?
However unintellectual it sounds? If we
continue like this, using grave pronouncements
but following up with half hearted policy, then
we will be worse off than the Bush Administration,
which could not admit that Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan held a certain responsibility for 9-11.
In the case of Pakistan, the administration
was allied in the chase against Al Kaeda and
Bin Laden. I witness that. But now, having
been an eager journalist at NASA and the NSA,
ooing and cooing over formulae "and stuff,"
the question is asked of me by those who are
familiar with my alliance building over
a decade--is Nigeria allied with the United
States in catching the plotters? Even
if we find that they are in Nigeria, at
whatever levels of the hierarchy? Will
we, in fact, rest before the plotters
are caught? Is President Obama more
hot air than our previous champion,
George Bush? The future, Mayowa,
the future will tell....
Ogun knows... ;-)