[steveegg]

The "homegrown" Islamists in the Phillipines are getting a heap of money and training from our "friends" the Saudis (much like the Albanians were getting a heap of money and training from the Iranians before and while S(l)ick Willie and company decided to help them win the latest battle in the roughly 900-year War for Eastern Europe).

The Phillipines and the Balkans show that the Islamists are on a worldwide march. Sooner or later they would have come after us anyway. IMHO, I'd rather take them out now than try to do so when they number 2 billion after they wipe out Europe and what's left of Africa.

[UnBlinkingEye]

We have supported terrorist groups and nations in the past, present and likely the future.

Why not return to a policy of non-intervention, lead by example and allow no significant threat to the United States?

It seems to me that we are in the role of globocop to protect the interests of multinational corporations.