Your comments make you seem naive, and I don't agree with much of what you've said........probably because I don't share your caustic worldview.
I'd rather be safe because there are fledgling democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq than be in greater danger because we either allowed the terrorists to fester inside those countries and grow stronger.
If you think it's 'naive' to fight and destroy terrorism, and then stabilize the countries and help them build themselves up, then I am naive.........and so are countless others........including our military.
btw, I'm not worried about being killed by the Germans flying planes into our buildings are you? Your concern about the 'virulent' anti-Americanism in western Europe doesn't hold water in light of what was going on in Iraq and Afghanistan before we liberated them. Your argument is illogical, econ. Try again.
I have never said you have never lived outside OH. You may have lived in Timbukto, but your mindset is very naive. My worldview isn't caustic, it is realistic. You don't have to believe what I am saying. Just ask anyone else who has lived there. Why do you think the Arab world is full of tyrants? The only Islamic country that has been able to reform is Turkey, and that is after it was humiliated.
Germans don't have to fly planes into our buildings, they will simply let those terrorists operate from their countries. The terrorists couldn't have picked a better spot to operate from. Their anti-Americanism blends in pretty well with the rest of Germany. You know Al Queda is not your friend. But, the Germans and the French are far worse because they pretend to be our friend.
You think you will be safe with democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq? Oh my. Thanks for the laugh.