I think that the conditions in this country are not yet ready for a mature debate about what is really going on: a major reshaping of the realities of the Middle East. If that were the enunciated policy the Media would be running around using the word "Crusade" and the ballgame would be over.
I agree, we have to defeat it financially, and morally as well. We’ve had some success financially, but I think morally success is mixed. I don’t think that the majority of Freepers can even accurately define terrorism. If we can’t even promote its definition, we can’t promote its amorality.
I think the ME has been on the verge of reshaping itself for centuries, and its dependence on the “tool” of terrorism is one of the anti-reformers last legs.
"I think that the conditions in this country are not yet ready for a mature debate about what is really going on: a major reshaping of the realities of the Middle East. "
Agreed. We don’t have the ability to come to a consensus on how to reshape the ME, only that terrorism is evil, however poorly understood. And I think that since terrorism is a tool that the resistance to ME reform depends upon, a war against that is a good start.