Just Walk Away.

While reading an article from Vainty Fair I suddenly understood completely this whole anti war crowd thought process.

If you remember in October before the election there was a big 'Vote For Change' concert at Cleveland's Gund Arena. R.E.M and Bruce Springsteen were the headliners. All the leftie baby boomers could hardly wait to hear the music and the anti Bush bashing. But the opening act was a young band called "Bright Eyes" that this crowd didn't care about hearing.....until he started playing. The band started with a song called "Landlocked Blues," a song that references war and fame. Then the band got to these lines:

"We made love on the living room floor/ With the noise in the background of a televised war/ And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say, / 'If we walk away, they'll walk away.'"

The crowd went wild. It personified exactly how they feel. First, let us have our pleasure and not be bothered by this war, and second, the ridiculous idea that if we walk away from Iraq, then the terrorists will walk away. This is at the heart of it all.
I can hardly believe that reasonable people really think that if we just back out of the middle east the terrorists and insurgents will just go back to being the butcher, the baker, and the candle stick maker they obviously were before the big bully America came calling. (Although butcher may be the appropriate career for them.)
Do they not stop to consider that the first trade center bombing and 9-11 were the only successful terror attacks on our soil?? I read somewhere that since 9-11 we have thwarted over 250 attacks.
The bottom line here is that the terrorists (in all their forms) will not stop attacking us or trying to attack us here or anywhere in the world we are as long as they are alive.
Walking away will not deter them, nor settle them down. The lefties have got to start understanding this. Some of my liberal friends argue that they don't believe that there could possible be a major attack from the terrorist on our soil. The scenerio of a nuked Washington D.C. and Islamic fanatics declaring Islamic law might seem like a hollywood movie, but that is only because none of us have actually experienced what WMD or biological attacks would be like, nor even believe they are possible. It sounds too out there. But is it possible? It is. Is it Probable? No. But if we walked away the likeliehood increases. As the food for Oil Scandal unfolds we find that Saddam was shopping all over the world for weapons like Paris Hilton shops for clothes and no amount of sanctions were working.
Which brings me to the second point that my liberal friends always seem to forget. Americans are not just on American soil. We have military bases, embassies, private companies ect., all over the world. As the terrorists have proven before, if they can't get us here, they will easily get us somewhere else.

Walking away is just not an option, no matter how well it is sung.