Thats essentially the recipe for WWIII. The situation we are faced with is one of potential chain-reaction, and the ideology I see is "Good! I don't care - we are RIGHT and thats all that matters!"
This is a having-something-to-prove motivation and not a de-escalation-protection-resolution motivation, in the end it is more expensive, more destructive and more damaging to our interests all so we can 'feel good' about it.
A war on terror should not be a war that insists we ignore its own the manifestation of more terror and more war. We should be acknowleging, investigating and reducing the factors that conjured this war -- because they are going to be the very same ones that, in part, drive the war beyond its proper scope.
Just because your son punched me in the nose doesnt mean I get to come and take your house by force. If you can map that analogy and be realistic about "our" interests in the region and "our" interests expressed in the phrase 'military-industrial-complex', and still can say to yourself, with a clear concious "so what" then I do not know what to say...
A person with that type of moral code is reprehensibly to me. If that makes me 'anti-American' then America is not what it portends itself to be.
Over three thousnd dead is not a "punch in the nose" . . .
How many more countrymen must die before you are willing to support our country's efforts to stop the onslaught? Do you really believe these lurkers in darkness will simply allow themselves to be captured? Do you honestly believe they give a damn about your sense of fairness?
Must we wait for the inevitable attack on American soil, again?