The first 9/11 was in response to our troops being in Saudi Arabia. Why were they there? To enforce those imaginary lines drawn by the Europeans in the sand of their dying empires. They played the divide and conquer game and now we're dragged into maintaining these imaginary political borders to what end?
You can't hide from this war. You can't hide from doing your duty for the sake of future US generations who should not have to suffer under Islamic rule.
Oh, please. You give them too much credit. We still retain the capability to wipe the Middle East off the map. AQ started fighting us for being there (to prop up the Saudi and Kuwaiti Kings - every American soldiers sworn duty apparently), before that they were fighting the dictatorships of the Middle East, let's let them get back to that.
It is you who want to retreat and hand Iraq over to al-Qaeda, not me. When will you stand up and fight? When they start blowing up American buildings... oops, sorry, that already happened and you don't want to fight. When they start blowing up European train stations? oops, sorry, that already happened and you don't want to fight. When they start blowing up US shopping centers? When they start blowing up your house? But then who will defend you? We will all say, it doesn't matter, after all, it is only you and you are trying to defend some made up border you placed around your house. Anyway, this is no time to give the Iraqi oil wells to people who want to blow us up.