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Originally Posted by peragro
The reason I went to such extreme is that any foreign involvement allows people/trade/interests to be jacked with by radical muslim terrorists and thus leaves us vulnerable.
It is impracticle, to say the least, to cut off all foreign involvement. Despite your feelings towards the oil economy, it is equally impracticle to stop that anytime in the next 50 years.
With those two givens any solution to the Islamic terrorist problem cannot involve the isolationism that you promote. This was obvious several decades ago.
The cat is now out of the bag. Discussing how to put it back in the bag or how it got out of the bag are really luxuries that we don't have. The cat must now be dealt with. Do we kill it? Declaw it? Train it to be a nice pussy? How will it react to those methods?
What is your solution based upon the contraints placed upon this country and others by the real world?
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It will take some time for their wounded pride to be salved. Just human nature. At this point, a very small minority of them want to come over here and do damage. Law enforcement is doing a good job keeping them at bay now. Attempting to wipe them out will only create more as we can see from the debacle that is Iraq.
We were terrified of China getting the bomb too. If we bomb Iran in hopes of taking out their nuke capacity, I think we'll delay it at best. Doing so will only increase the chance that Pakistan or even China or Russia will supply some terrorist with a nuke anyway.
Accurately finding underground sites is hard enough, let alone destroying them.
One thing that will not work is acting like tens of thousands of civilian losses on their side is an acceptable price to pay for a feeling of enhanced security on our part.