Reply #4: It's true. Why should they come here when they have easy targets there? [View All]

Why's that an argument in favor of the war? If you're playing a basketball game, do you want to play it at home or in the opposing team's backyard?

The way I argue is of course that's true. It's what they were hoping for all along, but in their wildest dreams they didn't think it would happen. Why should they go to the trouble to come here if they've got the perfect scenario with us over there? It's a perfect argument for recruiting future terrorists, they've got Americans with a bull-s eye on their backs, perfect targets in the middle of Iraq where it's easy to make bombs and sneak in bomb-making material thru highly porous borders, etc.

I recently heard somebody who has written a book about Al-
Qaida etc., the terrorist orgs, say that a booklet intercepted from Al-Qaida now available to the military that was translated from Arabic said this very thing. As long as Americans are in Iraq, there's no reason to focus elsewhere, they argue in the booklet. It wd be stupid to do so, but once we leave they will indeed focus on us here. It will be harder to kill us in large numbers, especially if we have an administration in after the war that is half-way competent, but that's what they'll do when we no longer make it easy for them by being easy targets in Iraq.