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Because it is better to fight in THEIR neighborhood, than in ours.

While I agree there should be no pullout of our troops, I think it is important to acknowledge WhiteGuy's point that a mere fraction of that, 12 thousand could make a tremendous impact.

I think to dismiss the entire concept out of hand with the vague concept of "fighting over there" is to miss the importance of our WOT not only includes, but is most important HERE.

To paraphrase, I care because it is better to lose a sneak attack battle in THEIR neighborhood, than in ours.

I have no problem with doing everything we can to defend the borders (and we aren't doing anywhere near enough).

I just don't like tying that effort into bringing ANY troops back from Iraq. They are doing an extremely vital job there. Bringing some back just weakens the effort there.

Besides until things change here, they wouldn't do any good. There are some legal issues that need to be handled re using troops within the US. And we would have to get enough popular support to overcome the Liberals screaming objections and attempts to block them being used.

At any rate, there are lots of people still in the military, who are not in Iraq, that could be used if we could overcome the other problems.

"Fighting over there" is not a vague concept. The best defense is a good offense. There is NO way to defend against all possible attacks. We MUST keep the enemy rocked back on their heels by hitting them constantly everywhere we can. If we ONLY try to defend here, we lose.