Hello Al Qaeda. If you want America to conquer the whole Middle East, just try 9/11 again. (Rush is Right...)
Hard to forget that time. For a few weeks we stopped being Republicans and Democrats, or divided by the usual hyphenated descriptions that divided us. I'm still moved by the clips of congress singing God Bless America on the Capitol steps. I think the terrorists were taught a lesson after 9/11...and not just the one we dished out in Ashcanistan...that when they attack us, they unite us. The enemy that they hoped to splinter was made stronger and more determined. I think Toby Keith summed it up well with the line "We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way." They will come at us again...that much is certain. But when they do it won't be with hi-jacked planes. They know that one more 9/11 attack, and even the soccer moms will be screaming for mass deportations and internment camps. If it can be tied to another country, nukes will be a very real option. That ups the stakes for them, meaning that their attack will have to be an order of magnatude higher. I'd be concerned about what happened to the several dozen old soviet era suitcase nukes that went missing a few years ago, or something along those lines.