Which moron talking head is spewing this garbage? I keep hearing this from the Neo Isolationist hide our head under the sand and ignore the problem and it will all just go away crowd. Totally irrelevant that they cannot "kill us all". All they have to be able to do is kill a significant number of us.
A series of strikes like 09-11 would so cripple our economy and cause such a political impossible to deflect counterreaction that it would virtually destroy our current form of Government. If you are upset by pathetically minor changes in US laws NOW, what do you think the reaction of average americans is going to be to a nuke going off in LA is going to be?
Hiding our heads under the sand hoping the problem will go away is NOT a viable solution. The viable solution is to kill enough of these bastards to force the rest to knock it off before they get to the point they can seriously hit us.
We have been lucky so far. The Weak in the Knees RINO solution is to assume we will continue being lucky. Sorry I don't like those odds.
As for the istorical references. Neither Nazi Germany nor Imperial Japan ever were capable of a significant attack on the US Homeland. The Terrorists all ready have hit it at least once. (09-11-01)
Wishing the problem would go away because you find the whole thing such an emotionally distressing interruption to your comfortable little life is a perfectly acceptable personal defense mechanisim. It is nonsense as Government policy.
Well, hey. Lets just say to hell with the whole democracy thing completely then. God knows, a militarial police state is the easiest way to keep the terrorists at bay on the home front. We can then pre-emtively nuke the ME back into the days of Abraham to remove the threat from its source. We should hit China and North Korea while we're at it. Why wait? Who knows when they might threaten us?
We can then sit back and thank the government - which will tell us when to eat, shit and sleep by then - for our 'freedom'.
It's not JUST about winning the war. It's about winning the war and having a peace worth living for.
Better dead than smeg, is what I say.