what you say has some truth to it but our foreign policy and trashy culture which is exported aggravates the tensions that are already there, as you have observed
why needlessly aggravate a potentially powerful opponent that we are unwilling to fully confront?
or even better yet, why do we weaken our country by permitting massive culture pollution under the name of "freedom"---different thread, i know
Unless we are really prepared to have world war with Islam it will be very difficult to win a piecemeal war. we may have killed 50,000 in Iraq but Muslims are present all over the world, esp in Iran
Another idea is send all non-citizen Muslims home. It amazes me we send 150,000 boys over there to fight yet allow Muslim population explosion here and we're too afraid to say anything for fear they will get violent in America. Huh? Send them home, but we won't.
"why needlessly aggravate a potentially powerful opponent"
THEY are already aggravated and have been since the seventh century A.D.
THEY are only now empowered by oil wealth which THEY didn't have the slightest ability to bring out of the ground but for us DECADENT MORALLY CORRUPT INFIDELS!
If THEY want to bring it on now, then it's time to
KILL THE WORTHLESS B@STARDS.
"We have the technology." Who cares what THEY think!!?
(Please excuse the all-caps shouting.)