Posted by
David Smith on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:05:53 AM
Just a thought for everybody on both sides of the aisle to ponder while General David Petraeus is before Congress this week testifying about the status of the troop surge.
It's a heckuva lot easier for 10,000 Muslim Jihadists to catch a plane to Boston, MA than it is for the US military to "redeploy," or remove, 30,000 American troops.
It's a heckuva lot easier for those 10,000 Muslim Jihadists, once they are in the US, to take out a whole lot of American civilians than they have been taking out military targets in Baghdad specifically and Iraq in general.
It's a whole lot better to have 200,000 American troops in Muslim lands than to have 1,000 Muslim Jihadists in America.
And I will station 200,000 Americans in Iraq for the next 20 years, at the cost of $250 billion and 1,000 American casualties per year in Iraq in exchange for the zero attacks on Americans in America since 9/11/2001.
It is safe to say that had President Bush done a lesser job, or had a President of lesser resolve been in charge, it is likely that we would have been attacked more than once in the last 6 years. That being the case, it is highly likely that we would have far more than the 3,700-some casualties that American troops have suffered in Iraq in American civilians state-side. And that is unacceptable any way you look at it!
Peace is preferrable. But in the absence of that being feasible in the face of those who would gladly travel here to carry out what they are now doing elsewhere, I will take a state of diligence and a heightened state of alert in the face of ongoing war for as long as it is necessary to combat extremism and anti-American sentiment.
Just a thought.