Because we funnel billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to their enemy and have U.S. troops on their soil.
That is called reality and it must be dealt with by us, or face the consequences.
One way to deal with it is to not throw your nation into the wars of others.
You fight the enemy where they are, you don't wait until you have to fight them on your own soil.
Which is what AQ saw when we put troops in Saudi. Next thing you know they're setting off bombs in the U.S., attacking U.S. warships, and blowing up U.S. embassies. Cause and effect is beyond some people's grasp apparently.
Tell me, what do you think America has gained by pouring billions of dollars into the Middle East (Isreal and despotic arab regimes alike), not to mention the thousands of lives lost once we embroiled ourselves in their wars?
The war at hand is as much ours as Israel's, as I've already explained.
Not involving ourselves [capitulation] would not have stopped 9/11 nor will it stop the Muslim terrorists who would destroy us no matter what we do. Weakness will make it happen faster.
Does Bush capitulating the the Rats to appear moderate help him? Of course not. The same logic is valid here. The defense rests.
We will have to agree to disagree...except on giving money to other countries, which should have been stopped a long time ago, except that both parties are globalists, and it will never happen until the conservatives take over the Rep party, which is now run by liberal globalist elites who do not reflect the base of the Republican party..and/or until hell freezes over and we get representatives in government and a President who are constitutionalists.