jpsmith1,
BINGO! Someone finally gets it. Right, wrong, or otherwise, the American people, as a whole, are unprepared for and unwilling to do what is necessary to defeat this enemy, and it is going to take an event of catastrophic proportions to get them going. By the way, I do not think another 9/11/01 will do it either, more like a 8/06/45. Until the American people are willing to fight this fight the way it must be fought to win, I say we get the hell out of there and get busy securing our own borders and homeland against the darkness to come. The Muslims are playing this game perfectly. They have gone from terrorists, to threats, to the oppressed. THAT is why there has not been another attack on US soil. Not because they can't, not because the Patriot Act, or the Bush Administration, or the border patrols, or the baggage scanners. There has not been an attack on US soil because it is not in the terrorists best interests to attack us again.
Put your personal feelings aside for a moment and consider the following scenario:
Jimmy runs across the playground and sneaks up behind Bob and trips him. All the other kids go "Ooooo" and stand back to see what happens. Bob gets up and punches Jimmy in the face. All the other kids go "He sure deserved that one." Bob then kicks him in the ..... The spectators say, "That was a little excessive, but he started it." Next, Bob starts whaling on Johnny, Jimmy's cousin, who happens to be a bully but was completely uninvolved in the tripping, although he did talk about Bob's mom a couple of days ago, after which Bob had already beat the fire out of him once. At this points, all the other kids on the playground are scratching their heads. Bob was wronged, but he got them back already, so why is he still hitting them. And can Jimmy and Johnny really be blamed for fighting back?
By attacking, then stopping, the terrorists are winning the PR war, which is as important as the ground war. We are falling into their hands by allowing them to write the rules of engagement and fighting their war, on their turf. Some think that PR is not important. They are wrong.
WylieKy