Reply #5: I think Fallujah was that Tet moment

[TayTay]

The reports of the insurgency in Iraq are all bad. The minute that US forces 'secure' a city and move on, the insurgents move back in and recapture it. We have 136,000 troops over there, nowhere near enough to truly 'secure' the country. This war is doomed.

I believe that we need to pull back US troops as soon as possible. We are attracting the militants and are the best advertisement for militants to come to Iraq to train to defeat the invaders. We have to come up with a different strategy. (US to patrol the border areas, turning over Iraq to Iraqi troops. People will die under this scenario. Truth to tell, people will die under all scenarios.)

Europe has a significant Muslim population, much more so than the US does. It also has had difficulty melding the Muslim population into the economic fabric of the various countries. Poverty breeds discontent, in Europe no less than anywhere else on earth. There is a large population from which to draw people who are disaffected enough to fall into radical and violent beliefs. This was true before 9/11 and it is true now. Europe has always had a sort of gun pointed at it's head. Ocassionally, that gun is going to go off, as it did today. (There are several radical mosques in London where wehemently anti-US, anti-western clerics have preached violence against western civ. This is a breeding ground for terrorism.)

Note the overt allusions to poverty, racism and having a large population of young males without jobs in this. This is a formula for trouble anywhere on earth.