What's your point? These countries (i.e. Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.) aren't "the Islamists".
Carl, what is this "war on terror" you would have us fight? Hunker down behind even greater state security mechanisms (patriot act on steroids) in hopes that we can prevent the next major terrorist attack on this nation?
Or shouldn't we be attacking and positively altering the conditions and leadership within the region where these terrorists are being created?
You keep saying that by attacking Iraq we're only going to create even more terrorists willing to attack the US. But I assert that 9/11 created more potential recruits and sympathy for Al-Qaeda than the war on Iraq.
Leaving the current regimes in place, with no pressure (or "spine strengthening") that requires them to moderate and modernize, would be a 100% certain guarantee of further attacks upon the US.
Because Bin Laden and his ilk can readily point to the fact that the US has done nothing for the average Arab. We support corrupt regimes, permit their economies to stagnate, and support the Israelis against their "palestinian brothers" (not that they actually care too much about them either).
You're simply not providing a workable solution that takes into account the economic stagnation, political corruption, and demographic changes within the mid-east.
We're fighting a war on terror Carl. And to fight such a war, we simply have to take the battle to those who sought to bring the war to us. We have to stiffen the spines of Arab leadership, provide hope to moderate and progressive moderate in the region, and eliminate the sources of funding upon which the militants rely.
And we simply can't do it by sitting on our fat @sses here across our ineffective ocean moats thinking we can avoid the next attack to be directed against us.
If you're worried about inciting the muslim world against us, just wait until we have a WMD attack on a US city. There will be far greater numbers of people turning out in the Arab streets to applaud, as well as signing up for the next attack.
We're going to be shedding blood in this war Carl. And this war is going to take time, step by step, country by country, militant by militant.
And if we're unwilling to deal with Islamic militants in their own countries.. militants who continue to use Anti-American rhetoric to create their own cults of personality, but never solve the problems of their nations, then we really have to ask why we should even try to defend our own borders.
We might as well just surrender and convert to Wahhabism.
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