OT: US Pres election

[quantum_mechani]

Originally Posted by Trumanator

Personally I would much rather have the terrorists get slaughtered in Iraq than have the probably more even casualty ratio that we would have here.

This attitude is so baffling to me. I mean, the vanishingly small percentage of people willing to cross continents to commit acts of terrorism (not to mention with the means to do so), compared to those willing to - as they perceive it - fight to liberate their occupied country is just extreme. I'd also note that at the Iraq war passed 9/11 in American casualties some time ago. That's completely apart from the even very conservatively hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead... it's hard to believe most of those were militants.

And even if you assume those fighting in Iraq have the will or the means to commit such acts in the US, the amount of security you could buy with the cost of the iraq war is mind-boggling.