Do they really think that the jihadis will simply go away? Do they think that their children will be any less dead if it's of radiation poisoning here in America instead of over there, fighting the enemy?
This is the best argument for the successor state to America--whatever survives the coming harvest of Islamist wrath and Ahmadinejad's madness--to deny women the franchise. They simply cannot think.
That bullcrap argument is exactly why the Republicans lost. Voters don't buy into the "fight them there so they don't come here" mantra. Americans did not sign onto an open-ended nation-building commitment where American servicemen die at the hands of an insurgency against a government that is unwilling to deal with the ethnic death squads operating with impunity.
Ask Tony Blair how the "fight them there so they won't come here" theory worked. Oh, yeah.