Obama: "Will kill bin Laden. We will crush Al-Qaeda."

When President Bush was still in office, Democrats went after Bush unmercifully about not catching Osama Bin Laden. They viewed this as incompetence of the Bush administration. President Obama stated before being sworn in:

"In an October 7 debate during the presidential campaign Obama said that if elected, his administration "will kill bin Laden. We will crush Al-Qaeda."

and

"My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him. But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America

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Obama has been in office for almost 8 months and it appears the U.S. and Obama is no closer to catching Bin Laden than Bush was. Bin Laden still communicates with the world and Al-Qaeda still operates, especially in Pakistan and Afghanistan, along with the Taliban.
Now, this is not a complaint against Obama. I think he has been adequate in Iraq and Afghanistan, meaning, he hasn't screwed it up. Time will tell in the next few months whether Obama's strategy will work.
My point is this: It's a lot easier to criticize while campaigning. It's a lot easier to speak out when you don't have experience in foreign affairs. If Bush was incompetent not getting Bin Laden, then so is Obama. And if another year and Obama is not caught, does that make Obama even more incompetent? Probably not. Or it could be that Bin Laden is very difficult to get and despite the excellent work by the military, CIA and other services, Bin Laden may never be caught.