Would you rather have us pull out and remove the big red bullfighter's cape that we're waving around at the terrorists over there? We do that and the terrorists will follow us here, putting our women and children in the crossfire. If you advocate pulling out, you are advocating sacrificing the lives of American women and children to save the lives of American soldiers, and that's absolutely backwards, not to mention despicable.
So you contend that our anti-terrorism strategy should consist of plopping down hundreds of thousands of troops in the middle of the Islamic "bee hive" and keeping them there indefinitely, so as to distract the terrorists and keep them busy killing our soldiers instead of our civilians. How many decades and how many lives do you think it might take before this brilliant strategy exhausts the global supply of Islamic radicals? How long might it be before the terrorists get smart, grow weary of killing our soldiers in their backyard, and return to killing civilians in America? How long might it be before this strategy ends up with us having bitten off more than we can chew?