[JSteff]

"Already, he says, there is talk among Islamic terror groups of an attack on the U.S. homeland yielding “mass casualties on an unprecedented scale"

Yeah and in the Tokyo officers and enlisted clubs they heard the same thing. The only one there that was right though was Yamamoto. Remember?

The terrorists are learning not to "wake the lazy sleeping giant. You will just fill him with a terrible resolve."

Or something close to that.. but they haven't even fully woken us yet. We can be fair but when we are united and pi$$ed no one has taken us yet. They don't even want to go there.

[FearGodNotMen]

Problem is, in the case of Japan, we were attacked by a specific country. I say if they set off a small nuke in one of our cities, we pick a known terror-state, and take it out. Period. That's how you defeat the terrorists. You damage/destroy/shrink the number of states they can operate in. Then they will start to feel our pain, big time.

[Restorer]

I agree.

Bin Laden's definition of victory is at minimum the establishment of an Islamic caliphate incorporating most or all Muslims, and at maximum the conquest and conversion of the West.

I have yet to see anyone come up with a logical scenario by which either, but especially the second, could come about.

Ain't gonna happen.

The only question is how much damage the terrorists are allowed to do before we decide to squash them.

It might be a lot, and those preaching defeatism in America will be responsible.