Exactly, except to the opposite of what you are trying to argue. We live in a [b]smaller world today, sir.

Nice pipe dream. Hell, I'd love to pretend that the world outside of my state doesn't exist. La la la la. Going to my happy place.

A few inaccuracies:

Sikhs are a peaceful religion separate from Islam entirely. Most live in India.

I never said Asian/African Islamic terrorists didn't exist. Hardly. They do, but they often don't have the same goals as the Mid East groups. Al Qaeda is a major exception. And, yes, there are significant differences in Islamic fundamenatlist groups from continent to continent that would require me to write a freaking three-page post to describe.[/b][/QUOTE]

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Every group has extremists. Even the Sikhs want their own little slice of heaven.
A little light reading on Sikh terrorism:
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/terror_91/asia.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/sikh.htm

I never said to burry our collective heads in the samd and pretend that evil doesn't exist. Closing up shop and boarding the doors is hardly "my happy place." It's ugly and sad but if protecting our way of life really is the goal, than what else would be more effective? I'm merely saying that going over to wherever the bad guys are hiding and trying to combat them millitarily isn't working. MadMad thinks I'm crazy for saying that we should pack up concentrate on defending our own homeland while going door to door all over the world shooting the bad guy makes perfect sense. Which plan really has a chance of success?

A smaller world? Yeah, I know everyone says that because you can fly it or call it and get across it quicker it's a smaller planet. But has it has never ben so populated and diverse. Have you ever seen a map of the world from about 1200AD? It was a much smaller place with much more ethnic and cultural segregation. You have never had so many different and diverse cultures living on top of each other and people are doing a damn good job of killing more of each other with less effort than it took in 1200.

MadMan, Frontier et.al. -

Quick show of hands: A) Who among you really has a solution to STOP Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, al qaeda and every other militant Islamic extremist organization? And B) Who honestly thinks that if we stay on course that some day they will be eliminated as threats to the safety of those that they now oppose?