Reply #25: Without arguing that very incendiary statement....

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You do realize that the numbers of these 'radical Islamists' are no greater than, say, the number of mafioso or Tongs and Triads in the US. Should we have attacked New York with military force because John Gotti lived there?

Our response is very disproportionate to the situation. Terrorism is ultimately a police/counter intelligence issue, not a military one. THAT is where this administration went terribly, terribly wrong on the problem of terrorism. Their actions now serve to create MORE people who hate us, and they're not even all 'radical Islamists' anymore. Regular average people who's families have been killed by our military now have plenty of reason to hate this country as much as Osama bin Laden does.