Reply #95: No, you still don't have it quite right

[WestMichRad]

Good discussion you've prompted here, EarlG, but you summary here isn't a strategy of how to forcefully attack them and win voters. It's a summary that they'll once again be able to beat us with.

Here's what I think is needed:
Our Republican leaders have failed to stop the terrorist threat, etc. as you have stated, then add: It's been 5 years since the 9/11 attacks, and four years (or whatever) years since the 9/11 commision reported its findings and made recommendations of what security measures are needed to make America safer. The Repukes have fully implemented none of them. We will move rapidly to implement most of these good recommendations.

The policies of our Republican leaders have failed to achieve their stated aims of reducing the terrorist threat because they've been badly misdirected. Attempting to use military force in a country that was not responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks (Iraq) has created millions of new enemies for America, not reduced the terrorist threat, and have triggered strife there that is approaching civil war. We will work to end heavy-handed military-first attempts to solve problems and stop propping up military regimes, and will work with these countries to help them solve their most pressing problems. It will take time, but the only true way to end the threat of terrorism is to take away the terrorists' reasons for hating the US.

OK, maybe i'm dreaming, but no other approach is really going to solve the terrorism problem. "Fighting terrorism" is really just a catch phrase for an endless battle of applying another layer of patches to a leaky ship.

Let there be peace.