FlyFishingX - I could not agree more about iran. Even the people that were in North America from there were all forced out because of the democratic movement of the time... there would have been a lot of support for that...

However, it would have also left Saddam in power, ready to invade Iran... so it would still have been complicated.

Regarding tactics that terrorists use... they are a disease attacking (something akin to a flu virus) ... we have to fight them like a disease. You cannot go around destroying whole organs because of it.