“And this would have solved things how?”
By winning, Jim. By beating them. That’s how problems caused by armed people killing us are solved, generally, not by retreating behind Fortress America and congratulating ourselves for no longer “abridging liberty” while lunatic theocratic fascists skullfuck their subjects with impunity.
Or do those folks’ liberties not count? This is an aspect of the antiwar libertarian argument I’ve never understood. That, and the Confederacy fetish. I dunno, maybe I’m still a pinko at heart.
Uh, how ’bout that Alias storyline, huh? 🙂