Canadians, French, all the same krap, free, krappy health care and no war allowed. Learn to speak the language and lie about your origins if you visit. France bought off terrorists for decades, cheaper than war, but it's chicken. Al Qaeda guys called Canada the air craft carrier before 9/11 because they used it to get in and out of the US.
We have gotten busy since 9/11 and have put a pretty large dent in Al Qaeda, I've seen news reports that we whacked 1/3 of them and that was months ago, could be higher now. I hope they are getting the hate preachers in the Madrasas, probably aren't, wouldn't be sportsmanlike. The Jews are doing a royal number on the Palestinians too.
Suicide bombers come from cultures where despair is the main thing going on, like Palestine and some other places in the Middle East. Pretty hard to find that in the US, have to import all the suicide bombers and that is not so easy to do nowadays. I don't think the liberals are despairing enough to blow themselves up yet!! I had a guy stop and help me with my stalled car and give me a pamphlet about Islam a couple of months ago. He was driving a brand new pickup truck and was on his way to College night classes. Doesn't sound like a future suicide bomber to me.
Some friends of mine went to a debate where all the main religions were represented. The Islamic guy claimed they are opressed by the west. Truth is, their cultures just don't foster productivity, haven't in centuries, probably never will. If we can make a fuel cell that terrorists can't use against us and if the pipeline gets built through Afghanistan and we can get the Russian oil online, and run our transportation and heating on fuel cells then we can embargo the whole middle east, and they have it coming too. Sounds like a plan to me. No way in hell to do that without an army. The former Afghan govt. was not going to cooperate in that.
Pretty muchly I would say that you have to deal with cooperative people by finding the win-win situation but with non-cooperative people you have to force their every move like the end game of chess or give up what you are trying to do. I don't think that, with the current administration in place, we are going to have to give up much of our nice way of life anytime soon.
Max