I emailed Neil Prakash recently and he asked me to explain why I was behind America and American soldiers. Here’s what I answered:

The plan to bring democracy to Middle East (ME) seems to be the only one that can guarantee, if it works of course, a long term solution to islamic terror.

Without functionnal societies, the ME countries will produce an endless stream of badass bearded people willing to cut throats, release some deadly virus in the London subway, or unleash a nuke in DC. And since they have the money they also export their coranic inspired hatred to the rest of the muslim world: Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippinnes, Thailand, but also in Europe… so the problem can only get worse!
Therefore, the alternative if the « neo-con » strategy fails, is to rely on defense for decades, therefore curbing our freedom more and more, until they decide to stop attacking us (yeah, count on that!), or if they don’t stop to obliterate them with nukes in response to, say, a smallpox epidemy or a nuke in Central Park (sounds more probable than them quieting down, heh ?).

About the alternative, Wretchard (The Belmont Club) wrote in his comment section:

I believe we passed the stage of sending messages on September 11. The time has come to do whatever is necessary to win against Islamic terrorism. Because of the tremendous power of the United States « whatever is necessary » may in fact be limited to overthrowing dysfunctional governments and hunting down terrorist cells. That is the humane opportunity before us. But should the enemy’s power increase then all the stops will progressively be pulled out because we are in a fight to death and in those circumstances « whatever is necessary » will mean exactly that. If we ever have to send bombers over Mecca it should only be to use them. We are not at that stage yet but we will eventually get to the greater tragedy if we cannot successfully prosecute the fight against terrorism by limited means. What is scary about London is not that it happened, but that there is nothing to prevent it from being serially repeated everywhere except the defeat of the enemy.

Whatever is necessary. When a nuke is set off in NYC, Paris, Rome, it will become really ugly. Blah about Gitmo will also become obsolete. Revenge is not yet an option. Not yet.