Now would be a good time to mention that the US does NOT think that all we face are a few die-hard Saddamists. There are Iranian subversives, al Qaeda, al Aqsa, al etc. over there, all wanting to kill us. They're drawn from all over the Arab world to Iraq and Afghanistan hoping to take a wack at the infidel Americans.
They're not defending their religion, they're trying to take over the world.
The author is an idiot, who has obviously been assimilated.
The U.S. military in Iraq is like a giant crackling purple bug zapper light, attracting all of the Islamocrazies in the world to their doom.
Come on, fly at the light.
ZAP!
Better they go to Iraq to meet our snipers, than they come to America to meet our kids.