I don’t disagree with that at all. I still don’t think you can take a hit like 09/11, and not send a clear message to the terrorists and their organization that they will cease to exist if they do that sort of thing.
We didn’t take much action after our embassies and the Cole were attacked. Did that buy us any safety, less hatred overseas?
We weren’t occupying any nations in the Middle-East as of 09/11/01.
The price of freedom is spilling some blood from time to time, and preferably our enemy’s, and as many of them as possible.
Of course not - but you know the fix is in when the mission is renamed from "Infinite Justice" to "Enduring Freedom."