Couldn't have said it better myself.....career politicians are going to get a lot of us killed. They seem to avoid a necessary terrible, withering war at all costs...the "gloves" will come off at some point...but must it be after another million of Americans are killed by terrorists?.....3000 dead are clearly not enough....how many do you suppose it will take?
"..3000 dead are clearly not enough....how many do you suppose it will take?"
That can only be determined by he American public.
Politicians are like a cold pot of water on the stove - they only react to the heat.
Only when the American public DEMANDS clearly and loudly that this insane suicidal political correctness with respect to Muslims and people from Islamic lands ends, will they react; only when the public demands that we crush and wipe out those murdereing maggots in the Middle East who are trying so hard to kill us, will they do so.
So the only answer to the question you posed is when the American public becomes outraged enough to demand real action - not just window dressing domestically, and a thorough program of retaliation and extermination overeseas, as they did in WW2, will the politicians respond.
Right now, they appear to have totally forgotten what happened on September 11th. Americans can have short attention spans. If they hadn't, they would recognize the idiocy of Kerry's campaign and his nonesense about trying to get the gifters and cowards in Europe to help us.
We're in this battle alone, Pardner.