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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
To me, it all comes down to efficacy. We've spent 5000 American lives and $1 trillion "taking the fight to them" and yet Al Qaeda continue to plan and set in motion attacks on U.S. soil (which thankfully, to date, have been foiled by the FBI & local law enforcement). Now if you happen to think this result has been an effective use of our resources, then by all means let's keep on the current path.
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These plans are much easier to undertake when you have plenty of time, money, and security to do them. They have yet to make a successful attack since 9/11, in part because they have no real safe area to plan from, and no easy pipeline to get them men and materials into this country. Yes, defense here at home is critical and the FBI, etc have done a great job, but that job is made easier because we've gone after their safe areas. ANY war on terror has got to involve overseas operations.
Yes, that might be possible with just letting special operations run around over there, but they need safe bases to operate from IN THE AREA, not a half continent away (Germany, maybe Turkey if we're lucky?).