I do not disagree with you at all.
The PC crowd, appeasement / weakness crowd will not prevail. Either we shall subdue them or what comes after our republic will subdue them.
Personally I believe that it will take another attack equal or greater than what we saw in 2001 before we actively persue this matter as a nation again.
Its not what I wish, want or think is right. Its just how I see the current state of affairs.
"Personally I believe that it will take another attack equal or greater than what we saw in 2001 before we actively persue this matter as a nation again. "
You're right about that. But 2 things will be necessary. First, the attack will have to be MASSIVE. Many, many, many people will have to die before most Americans so much as switch on the news, mainly just out of curiosity. Second, the relative of a politician will have to be one of the casualties. Outside of these 2 conditions being met, all I can confidently predict is the John Kerry Diplomatic Mission to the country that murdered our citizens.
I hope you both have been following the thread here relating to an article in the LA Times that asserts that 9/11 really wasn't that big a deal after all, and we just massively overreacted to it.
I can't imagine what it will take to wake people up. And frankly, I think their first response now would be simply to surrender. Maybe I underestimate my fellow citizens, but over the last five years, I think somehow the consensus has shifted and people feel that it probably wouldn't be that bad to be under an Islamic regime, or at any rate, anything would be better than fighting back.