no offense taken, and I respect your opinion, but the way I see it is that we are fighting fanatics who fly hijacked planes into buildings and strap bombs to themselves and blow up innocent people because they think that if they do, 11 virgins are waiting for them in paradise. Call them what you will, but reality is that they are subhuman terrorist monsters bent on the destruction of anyone who doesn't share their misguided religious beliefs. We are trying to keep the dirty bomb from going off over here by keeping them on the run. But whichever country falls asleep at the wheel, so to speak, will sooner or later experience a tragedy worse than our 9/11, unless we get to them first, which is highly unlikely due to the politics surrounding our involvement in trying to bring peace, order and freedom to an oppressed people.

But that's just my opinion, and I could be wrong.