Terrorism will not be stopped by tighter immigrations laws. The terrorist organizations and regime will devise a way to create terrorists who are already legally here in the United States including US citizens; not just naturalized US citizens but American born citizens. The terrorist attacks in London in July 2005 were carried out by British born citizens. We are fighting a global war on terror and to win it we must go to the heart of the Middle East and fight the terrorists there. That is why Iraq is now the central front of the war on terror. Every terrorist in the world is coming to fight us there including the terrorists supported by Iran and Syria, and once we crush them and defeat them in Iraq, we will change the whole map of the Middle East and create extremely difficult conditions for terrorism to flourish in the Middle East or elsewhere.
"Terrorism will not be stopped by tighter immigrations laws. The terrorist organizations and regime will devise a way to create terrorists who are already legally here in the United States including US citizens; not just naturalized US citizens but American born citizens. The terrorist attacks in London in July 2005 were carried out by British born citizens. We are fighting a global war on terror and to win it we must go to the heart of the Middle East and fight the terrorists there. That is why Iraq is now the central front of the war on terror. Every terrorist in the world is coming to fight us there including the terrorists supported by Iran and Syria, and once we crush them and defeat them in Iraq, we will change the whole map of the Middle East and create extremely difficult conditions for terrorism to flourish in the Middle East or elsewhere."
All true, except it's not "once", it's "if".
And that is the whole problem.
"Once" isn't going to come to be on our present course.
By writing "once", you didn't have to add a "defeatist" "if not" sentence (to follow on from the "if"), but you need to write that sentence, even if you don't post it.
And then you need to recognize that the needfulness to avoid the "if not" scenario does not change the "if" into a "once". I am sadly confident that, if we continue on our present course, there will be no "Once", and that "if not" scenario will become a "when not".