[epluribus_2]

I think as it sinks in that the U.S. is not going to cut and run, the whole dynamic has changed for the insurgents and alQ. The iraqis were going with the presumed winners before because of how the whole world and us media/rats repeated the doom and gloom scenarios so much. Resolve backed by power is unbeatable.

[allmendream]

Agreed, and as a culture Arabs “like the strong horse” as OBL says. Al QED was never more popular in the Arab world than right after 9-11. They were never less popular when they dragged Saddam Hussein out of his “spider” hole.

Nowadays people in the Arab world have to be thinking to themselves “You know, if Osama Bin Lauden thought that the U.S.A. was too involved in the Middle East BEFORE 9-11, did he think killing 3,000 American civilians would make them LESS involved in the Middle East?”

I was having that same discussion with my brother. He said “How could they possibly think it would work?”

I replied “It has always worked for them in the past, they gave Arafat a Nobel Peace Prize.”

“Yeah, but that was Europe!” was his PRICELESS answer.

We are not Europe. We are America.