Originally Posted by Ron Paul

You have to put it in perspective, you're talking about several hundred people, maybe now thousands, since we've been over there, Al Qaeda's been recruiting, but they don't have an Army....we stood down the Soviets, they had 40,000 nuclear weapons, we had Khruschev pounding on the desk saying "We will bury you!"-he was capable of doing it! The Al Qaeda does not have an army, they don't have a Navy, they don't have intercontinental ballistic missiles, they don't have weapons of mass destruction, they don't have a country--they're very very weak people in that sense. But they have determination, and the determination comes from being provoked, and they have to have some reason to galvenize enough hatred to come here and do what they have done, so no, if I bring the troops home over night, it's not going to eliminate what has been going on for quite a few decades, but I'll tell you what--it's going to be a lot better, and if we think they just come here because we are free and prosperous, we will never solve this problem....