The problem is--and has been--that Iraq was down on the list of real targets. The WTC attack was paid for by the Saudis and most of the terrorists were from Saudi Arabia. Then there is Iran (almost nuclear-armed), Syria, Pakistan--and North Korea.
Personally I still think we should have nuked them all--Mecca and Medina included--and simply put a total embargo on any trade and travel between the West and the Islamic world.
They have oil. We can--with the will and the technology--do without it. We have computers, electrical generators, medicine, aircraft, cars, satellites, and all the other fruits of infidel nations. Let them do without any of this.
I am completely serious. Nuke them back to 700 A.D. and let them return to camels in the desert. No more flight training. No more PhDs in biology (to help them make bio weapons). No more travel--in either direction.
They need US more than we need THEM. Indeed, civilization needs Islam not at all. So let's roll--and be done with it.
Nation-building: pfah. Boots on the ground: idiocy.
And for those who think this too extreme, I have only one response: 9/11/2001. The next one they pull is likely to be worse. Even if we try to win their "hearts and minds".
--Boris