That isn't conventional wisdom here at freep.
And what then would be your conventional 'backup plan'? Wait and see what happens? Until we're hit? Sounds like a John kerry voter to me!
A recipe for world wide disaster. And I'm no "peacenik" or "leftwinger".
The key to any control situation is 'fear' as a deterent. Criminals keep on killing because of slack liberal laws, such as being soft on the death penalty, getting off on technicalities, etc. Same thing applies to putting the 'fear of GOD' into nations as a deterent to prevent attacks levied upon us.
I'm still waiting to hear a good 'backup' plan from the more 'intelligent' freepers, if you know what I mean.
This plan may be all we have at this point, and we're damn lucky we haven't been hit since 9-11, thanks be to the adeptness of Dubya and his staff.