True imo.
Also coupled with isolationism. As with The Roman Empire, the day we stop meeting the barbarians at the outside fringes [the front line] away from our homeland, will be the day they will begin to hit us harder inside, and eventually defeat us.
Bush's strategy of hit them where they are now, is ingenious. We can not afford to fight them on our own territory. By then it will be too late for our nation state to survive. [martial law, no more Republic, unrecoverable physical and systemic damage]
Pray to God in Heaven the moronic breeding machine cultures of our country do not gain the upper hand and elect a Rat to the Presidency. [sorry i wandered]