When you step back and think about it, it's really an absurd proposition that we ask presidential candidates to publicly tell us their strategies - in exhaustive detail - for attacking and destroying an enemy that you know fully well is listening in. If a candidate is vague, the media complain that he was "short on specifics." But if he's really specific, the media attack the specifics while the enemy takes copious notes and sends flowers in thanks for the heads up.
It's a wonder any of us are still alive when we fight terrorism like this.