I know that acknowledging this would completely dismantle your carefully constructed religion of isolationism (yes, it is a religion to you as evidenced by your compelte devotion and obsession to the concept to the exclusion of all other possible realities), but you are most certainly starting to look like a complete, irrational fool for the sake of your simplistic beliefs and misguided desire to continue hiding in your closet.
Yes, I don't doubt that. And I don't doubt who it will be used on: Israel. Nor do I doubt why the U.S. would be dragged in to defend Israel. The key question to ask is, "who benefits" from U.S. intervention. All answers point toward Tel Aviv.
Open your eyes and quit being so stubbornly naive. Your SDI isn't here and it won't be B4 Saddam, who wants you dead, tries something.
I'm proud of my stubborn nature. I won't bend where others in the past have. SDI can be here if we have the will to make it happen. In the meantime, pulling America out of the Middle East will buy us time and get us off the Arab radar screen.
Saddam never had to be our enemy. We were the ones that decided to play globocop in his dispute with Kuwait. Had we not given him our ultimatums and attacked him, it would have been business as usual, Iraq would not have seen the U.S. as an enemy.
If we had a President tomorrow who made a speech announcing that America has new leadership, a fundamentally different direction than the past, a nationalist government that puts America first and does not seek to intervene in the internal politics or wars of other states, I truly believe the Islamic fundamentalists would refocus their ire toward Israel, where it belongs since they're there in that region, instead of at us. Osama himself stated that in a 1998 ABC News interview with John Miller. I know some might say, "why believe him," but I doubt a terrorist would lie about his political goals--terrorists have to state their demands in order to be effective terrorists. He wants us to leave the Middle East and cut Israel loose. I'd do it in a heartbeat. I'd have done it long before 9/11--and 9/11 would never have happened.