qaeda was that a nation state and the important constitutional issue is could we be at war with dimond nation state and i think president bush made that decision for the country and that was important because once you make the call in the united states can turn to the laws and the rules of warfare to deal with al qaeda and the threat of terrorism. all of those i think were in display not just an hour invasion of afghanistan and the use of troops and drones to wipe out much of al qaeda's existing leadership at the time of 9/11 but also put on display in the successful operation to kill osama bin laden over the summer which i think of as press event obama's foreign policy national security achievement the last two and a half years. here use of intelligence provided by people who didn't feet and under the law of the war, electronic surveillance producing more intelligence to locate where osama bin laden had been hiding and then the use of military force to go out and kill him. under rules of the criminal justice system which the administrations of both political parties used in their approach to