Isn't this the type of appeasement we accuse other countries of practicing?
We cannot move into Muslim countries such as we have in Kosovo and Iraq and antagonize the population by promises of freedom and democracy without causing an upheaval. Freedom and democracy are alien to Muslim teachings. Military leaders on the ground have estimated that violent opposition has increased four-fold in Iraq in the past year. How are we countering that? By staying longer and letting it increase eight-fold? This is stupid. How many terrorists have we allowed to infiltrate our country by our lack of border security?
You do not antagonize the enemy and drop your guard if you expect to win. You lay in wait for the enemy to expose himself and you hit him hard. We are doing the opposite, we expose ourselves and let him hit us hard. Another fact that has to be realized, is there are passive Muslims in a proportion similar to the number of passive Christians. By bombing the passive Muslim population, you activate them the same as 9/11 did to our passive population. We have to defend ourselves but we do not have to take on the impossible job of policing the entire world.
We made a smart move by punishing Al Qaeda in Afghanistan but we made a dumb move by exposing ourselves in Iraq. The theory that we are defending ourselves by engaging terrorists overseas without guarding our borders here is nonsense. Any military commander will defend his perimeter so he has a force that is able to attack when the time comes to do so.