Here's what you are not getting ... WE HAVE THE SAME INFORMATION YOU HAVE ... and we come to a different conclusion. It doesn't make you better informed or smarter. If you persist in that kind of argument, it makes you arrogant and an elitist.
Do you have the same information as Gen's Pace, Abazaid and Franks?
No, I guess it's a value judgment. Living in an area that was attacked TWICE can lead you to think more highly of folks on our side of the battle than those who have been relatively immune from the general conflict.