[Iwentsouth]

It took 9/11 for Americans to start even facing the Islamist problem. Look at how many problems it has caused us to go into only two of the terror sponsering Middle East countrys. We cannot fight them all at this time.

Half of our Allies are not even with us anymore. Things are only going to get worse for both Americans and Israelis before it get any better. It sucks but we are walking a fine diplomatic line.

Bin Ladens Fatwa says clearly it is a war against Jews and Crusaders (Americans). All the other Islamist say the same thing about Jews and Americans. So were in this together.

[carton253]

You are correct. This war on terror is going to be a long war against many fronts.

Half of our allies are not with us because they refuse to see the danger (even within their own borders). But this will change. We either need to defeat the terrorists or we will be defeated by them.

I understand the fine diplomatic line we walk. But, we must make sure that we don't sacrifice anyone while we walk it.

America is targeted only because America is the vanguard of the West. Since America does not plan to be anything less, we will be the number one target. My point is that America is not hated because of our support of Israel. That is the pre-text. Go past the fatwas into the deeper writings, and you will see that Israel is hated because of America. Israel and America both represent this culture that has oppressed Islam... Israel is an outpost of the West (a cancer) on holy Arab territory.

We are in this together. I couldn't agree more. I think most of the posts (at least mine) have dealt with Madrid and Oslo...

9/11 changed everything...