We are out of our minds. Yesterday, the NY Post ran a front-page picture of 100 Taliban assembled, nicely and compactly, away from civilan cover, for a funeral for one of their own. A U.S. drone snapped the shot, almost as if the Taliban had posed for a portrait. A great opportunity to take out 100 bloodthirsty killers, right? No.

But according to a statement yesterday from U.S. Central Command in Afghanistan, "a decision was made" - preposterously - "not to strike the group of insurgents at that specific location and time" because the site was a cemetery with a funeral in progress.

In the end, all intelligence officials could do was to watch helplessly as the terrorists split up into groups too small to be targeted with any precision.

And it's not the first time.

Back on the first night of the war in Afghanistan in 2001 an unmanned Predator reconnaissance aircraft identified a convoy of cars and trucks fleeing Kabul as that of Mullah Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban. But a fighter-jet strike was vetoed - reportedly by Central Command's judge advocate general.

America's interests are ill-served when grandstanding politicians and risk-averse bureaucrats get in the way of our military. Our enemy means to kill us and will not negotiate. We must kill the enemy first.

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