I agree that the long term goal is to learn how not to piss off the rest of the world to the point where large segments want to kill us. But the short term goal is to secure our borders against those who are already against us. And it can be done now. Even if we pull out of the Middle East entirely today I don't see Al Qaeda softening on us.
I actually don't see us -ever- attaining the long term goal of improving our foreign policy enough to resist the creation of enemies. As long as we are world leaders, which I sincerely hope we can always maintain, we will be selfish enough to impose our interests on others.
As most everyone on this board knows, I have a vast array of problems with the Bush Admin and the way they are running this country. This is just the most pressing concern, something that is just a basic part of his job that he is failing at. And also something I think I can use to get some understanding out of Bush supporters on this board.
I have seen too many people throw their support to him based entirely on national security issues and that just amazes me because of the obviousness of his failure at it.
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