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First of all, the anti-immigration line you gratuitously tossed in is scapegoating at best. I'm sorry, but that is entirely unrelated to the foreign policy/national security matter. It's wrong, quite frankly. Are there problems with current immigration policy? Yes. Is that a reason to affect the immigrants themselves? No. The problem, for the most part is in allowing immigrants to get hooked on the degrading narcotic of welfare, and to get a betetr means of checking the backgrounds of those who wish to come here. That was something that our elected officials allowed to happen, and that is something elected officials will have to fix. But it ain't the immigrants' fault - save for those who mean to cause harm to others. Cutting back immigration over 9/11 is like passing a gun ban because of one nutcase shooting up a schoolyard. It's not fair to the innocent people affected by the laws you want passed.

Blaming immigration for problems like unemplyoment is a cop-out for people who don't want to do the heavy lifting that will be necessary to end the hostile business climate created in this country through grossly excessive corporate taxation and regulations that have gone way past any idea of common sense.

Second, I couldn't care less how many countries we are in - this war ain't just al-Qaida and Afghanistan. It's about clearing out ALL of those groups. If those groups have a global reach, they're on our list. If there is a nation-state supporting terrorist groups, they're on our list. We've got troops in Korea as part of a mutual defense treaty with South Korea. The troops in Germany are in as part of the North Atlantic Treaty.

Third, "overcommited" or not, the U.S. pull out until the war is won. Anything less would give potential adversaries the impression that we have a weakness of resolve, and that will be a lot more likely than our current policy to cause a much more costly war down the road - and we will have fewer allies that we can count on to fight that war.

And THAT is where you are wrong. If we make changes in foreign policy, it should only come in AFTER we have won the victory. Any other course of action WILL get us into a more dangerous situation.

How is it scapegoating the immigration issue when there are an estimated 15 million illegal aliens in this country. We don't know how many of these are connected to Islamic cells. In what fantasyland is that NOT connected to national security. I'm not suggesting we close our borders to all legal immigrants, but in order to get a handle on things we should temporarily halt nearly all: THIS should've been done on Sept. 12. And my tax dollars are paying for services to law breakers entering this country illegally. We should also be rounding up every Islamist remotely suspected of terror connection. They are still very much among us: read Steve Emerson's "American Jihad."

NATO? A relic of WW2 that is no longer necessary in it's current form. We should not be committed to coming to the defense of the entirety of the European continent, which we nearly are at this point. And do we have to be in a defense pact with Korea forever? no, no, no! At some point we must relinquish this to regional allies.

I'm all for being in as many countries as possible to hunt down Al Qaida. Let do it! And you're right that we shouldn't bring any troops home until this is accomplished. But at some point we have to realize our limits and take care of THIS country.