re: Logic
Now, if one had any brains at all - and to be an international terrorist, one has to have some brains, even if deluded - then one would tend to attack where defenses are weakest... not where the might of the military is.
aQ: "Hmm, let me see - I could go to Iraq, which is far from the US, and face 125,000 experienced, heavily armed and supported, and pissed off Marines and try to fight them with AK-47s and crappy IEDs, or I could go to someplace with US interests that hardly anyone is paying attention to, and blow up a few schools or sporting events... now, which one is going to have the greatest effect in my war against Western Civilization?"
The terrorists may be crazy, but most of them aren't stupid, at least the leaders.
So tell me, why are they fighting us in Iraq, and there have been no attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11? Or on any other U.S. facility outside the war zone, for that matter?
Does it ever occur to any of you that your most basic paradigms might be wrong?