However, due to the trick of Fate described above, they belong to a party that thinks wars are a thing of the past, unbecoming civilized people. They will deny that we're at war for as long as they can. If our enemy is very stupid, something will happen that will make the denial impossible. If they are smart, they will start slowly wining the war we are not fighting.

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And the Democrat crew that is now coming to the scene will have amply demonstrated that their approach (denial and tribute and retreat) does not work.

Rather than a point-by-point rebuttal, I'll just present my view, which is completely incompatible with yours.

We were attacked. The people who did it were mostly Saudi, and the non-Saudis who were involved were educated and trained by Saudis. They were mostly based out of Afghanistan, where we had supplied them for years as proxy warriors against the Soviets. Once the Soviets pulled out, we stopped supplying them, and they turned on us. Surprise! It's not like we haven't seen it before, with every other proxy we stopped supplying.

So we went into Afghanistan, and everyone -- or close enough as to make no difference -- both here and worldwide supported us. And those who didn't support us at least understood.

Then we went into Iraq. They had nothing to do with the attacks. We should never have gone in. But we wanted to "fight them there so we don't have to fight them here." In other words, we don't want any more attacks on U.S. soil, so we'll just piss them off and put targets up somewhere over there. Doesn't really matter where, we'll just pick a spot.

And it worked. Anyone who wants to kill Americans finds it much easier to do in Iraq than it would be in the U.S. Congratulations, homeland secured.

And after criminally inept (thanks for the admission) leadership, people have finally had enough of it. Pointing out that we picked a fight with the wrong people for no damn good reason, and that it's about time we stopped, is in no way the same as tribute. Yes, it's denial; it's denying that there's a goal to this war. Yes, it's retreat; it's pulling back from a war we shouldn't fight.

So what should we do? Let these gegraphically dispersed people take shots at us from hiding and constantly react to them? Yes, that's exactly what we should do. Try to find out what they're planning and stop them, sure. But we can't just pick a spot and announce to the world, "Hey, anybody who wants to kill Americans, do it there instead." It's called being civilized.