[Grunthor]

“9/11 had the opposite effect of what the terrorist intended. The US increased their presence in the Middle East due to their acts of war.”

True, but how does that answer my question?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

So it was a misstatement. What's your point?
Do you really believe that if we left the Middle East there would be no more violence against us? Would it end the violence of the Islamonazis against Europe? How the Islamonazi violence against smaller countries that have little to do with the Middle East?

Islamonazi violence is and has been pervasive. Our presence in the Middle East is irrelevant. They are trying to reduce the world to a caliphate.

It's unfortunate that we are funding that effort by our will to play far in a free-market economy. I see we just let Israel demolish Iran while we take out Syria and restore Lebanon to the Lebanese who were friends of the West before the Islamonazis took it over. And then we beef up our military presence in Saudi Arabia and say, “Get busy making oil. We'll still pay you for it, but if it goes to fund terrorists, we'll do you like we did the others.”