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The War in Iraq is proving that you can kill a bunch of innocent civilians and win the war. The United States had better wise up. This tactic will be used here if it meets their requirements. The reason bombs have not gone off in the shopping malls is because it would generate so much hatred of those behind the killings, that their present tactic in Iraq would have a new relevance and renew the national fervor to destroy the source of such criminal tactics. Such criminal tactics should be a concern for all of civilized men. If it succeeds, it will be used everywhere. We must oppose it for our own sake. May I quote John Donne who wrote in his Meditations XVII in 1624, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

The War in Iraq is proving that you can kill a bunch of innocent civilians and win the war. [...] We must oppose it for our own sake.

Exactly. The idea that we can just pack up and leave, and make those terror tactics de facto effective, with no regard for the repercussions, is incredibly and irresponsibly short-sighted.

Even if I thought we were "wrong" to invade, I'd still be dead-set against leaving, on these grounds alone. If we want terrorism to go on the decline, at some point we must stop being so cowardly that we always end up rewarding terror tactics with victories.