Do you think terrorists would stop targeting Americans if we left Iraq?

I don't think it would stop the problem. However I still think that American troops don't belong in Iraq. We should leave the United Nations to sort it all out instead of staying there to protect the oil.

No, terrorists targeted the US before we invaded Iraq, and they will continue to be a threat even if we leave, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't leave. Being in Iraq isn't making us any less of a target and leaving won't make us any more of a target. What it WILL do is bring our troops home where they can aid in national defense. Yes, it should be done slowly and it should be done carefully, but we need to commit to pulling out.

I think that if American stayed out of the business of other countries, we would have a lot less terrorist attacks, maybe even none at all. I think it is not necessarily true that people would view the United States as weak if we pulled our troops out of their stations worldwide. If you look at peaceful nations, like Costa Rica, for example, that has no standing military whatsoever, they are left alone, they are not attacked or made a target. Switzerland also generally keeps out of everything and does not police the world, and people leave them alone too.

No I don't think that will happen because if we left Iraq they will still remember what we do there and they will want to do the same think to us.

I don't think it would be stopped.. As I saw on one documentary, there are some terrorists that are from different parts of the world, even in the U.S. to be exact. They made some propagandas and announcements calling out all believers of Allah to wage war against America and it's allies, a Jihad be declared. This I hope, for the love of God would not happen!

Ahem....come again? "the terrorist are determined to rule the world" !??No...they are not...actually the "holy wars" begun many many hundreds of years ago.In Coran for example it's stipulated :"make others beleivers by kind words and wisdom...or by the sword".So...these things did NOT happend now...By the way have you people ever asked WHY do they attack you ?(Oh..and yes europe and america are "fuelling" from there by the way).I personally don't agree that a foreign force should intervene in a country's matter unless that country asks for it (see Sarajevo for example where they requested help from UN)...I for instance am glad that when we had the revolution no outside force interfered we would of considered an invasion as long as we didn't required it.Think of the past...who's right and who's wrong?

I completely agree with you. They would still attack and it would be even worse. They would say that we are weak and would make their attacks more frequent and far more tragic. I think that people that believe that we can sit down and reason with them are really delusional. I have heard people say that if we took our soldiers out and then talked to them we would get further. That is the most absurd thing I have ever heard.

It absolutely has nothing to do with where we are, who we're friends with or how nice we are to the leaders of the world. I think Clinton proved that rather nicely. How do you negotiate with someone who is driven soley by deep faith to kill you and your kind in the interests of weeding out non-believers? Do you think durring the inquisition that jews could have negotiated with the church and stop the horrendous acts that they were endurring? Could the people in Salem or England have been more diplomatic with the fundamental christain courts and been spared being accused and hanged as a witch? Or durring the crusaides, if the turks and arabs were a little nicer to the eurpean armadas that they would not have been so thought of savages? It has nothing to do with any of the buzzphrases the "feel-good" crowd likes to regurgitate on a daily basis, it, like many other events in history, is driven by a deeply embraced philosophy. I in another post qoted the former leader of al' qeiada in iraq, Zarqaui, "democracy is un-islamic". Or Bin laden's right hand man to the western nations, "convert to islam, or die" I think they said it better than i ever could have