You must have been in cryogenic suspension for the last few years. 9/11 should be your barometer for how ready we are to fight.
"You must have been in cryogenic suspension for the last few years. 9/11 should be your barometer for how ready we are to fight."
Sure, we're ready to fight those who targeted our innocent civilians. But if you want to see how far that goes, look no further than the latest polls that show declining support for the war in Iraq, then look at what happened in Beirut in the 1980s (we bailed when we lost a few hundred soldiers in a suicide bomb attack) and then look at our loss of support for the Vietnam war. The record shows there's a limit to how far we are willing to go for allies who have a messed up country.