Australia seems to have pacified Indonesia over East Timor without BLOWING THEM ALL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
Australia seems to have worked with the Indonesian police to identify and capture the Bali bombers and trace them back to muslim clerics without BLOWING THEM ALL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
A US solution seems to be raid any place that is doing something they don't like with overwhelming force and any place that things don't fall into place like Somalia - well, make a movie about it! There's an industry ready to exploit almost any situation.
That's why it's so pathetic trotting off to Iraq to obey US command.
