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MR. BUCHANAN: The president of the United States was profoundly mistaken. He has misdiagnosed the malady. He has misdiagnosed the reason for the attack, Tim. The United States was not attacked because we are free. Bin Laden was not attacking the Bill of Rights. We were attacked because ... the United States' military and political presence is massive over there. Bin Laden in his fatwah, his statement of declaration of war on the United States, said the infidels were standing on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia. They want us out of the Middle East. They don't care whether we have a separation of church and state.

If we agree with the demands of Bin Laden, the logic dictates that we should get out of any place they would call sacred. Those terrorists who attack Spain did not stop with Spain's withdrawal from Iraq, but continue, because they want back what they lost 600 years ago. Nigeria that was mostly Christian about 30-50 years ago is a battlefield on the Islamists bloody borders. Same as Philippines, same as many other places from Africa to Asia, and Europe soon to be. Appeasement has an unbanding logic of never stopping. You might think that one small demand is reasonable, but then there will be another, and another, and another...

Newt Gingrich calls them well: Irreconcilable wing of Islam. Pat is making a huge mistake going from understanding the enemy to agreeing with the enemy. If you can't reconcile the differences with the enemy you should defeat it. There are different ways of doing it smartly including diplomacy, promoting democracy, using force, threatening using force, allying with moderates, etc, etc. There is only one that must be absent there: don't cut and run to hide.