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Of course the Russian situation is different in several ways. The most significant of course was the attempt to impose Communism, which is not exactly friendly to any religious freedoms which in a country of strongly religious people, is going to lead to a ton of resistance. Of course look what we have done in Afghanistan. We brought democracy to a place where no one thought it could be done. Look how well the elections went. If there was ever a time for massive terrorist incidents, this would have been it. Nothing significant happened.

You say that regional destabilization is a negative. The problem with that is that is exactly what we want to achieve. We want to challenege the status quo there. We dont the leaders there to think they have a free hand to support terrorists. Also, Arabs respect strength above all. Part of the reason that these terrorist incidents grew over the years is that the US was seen as a paper tiger. They didnt think we would strike back and we finally did. That certainly changes the dynamic when they know they no longer have a free hand to plan and execute terrorist operations.



Tell me again, how do you diplomatically isolate a worldwide confederation of terrorists ? That should be an interesting argument.