actor_au wrote:
Iraq doesn't distract the real terrorists for even a second, all it does it give them on a platter more sources of propaganda to recruit further terrorists into their assorted cells and organisations.
bolded for emphasis.
Unfortunately nobody seems to want to considder why the terrorists hate westerners in the first place. This is largely because we tend to stick our troops, money and influence in places where they don't really belong. It makes no sense that
doing the very kind of thing that makes people hate us can possibly make less people hate us. In fact I'd even say that most of the terrorists are justified in thier hatred of US policies, certainly not in their chosen method of expressing that hatred. However, no one, especially a US politician, would dare considder that the terrosits might have a point. This would mean that you
hate America, and you are
unpatriotic rather than that you would like your country to lead by example, because you cannot question US foriegn policies in good faith anymore. You either for us or you are against us.