Joseph Lieberman actually said...

But we cannot let these sanctuaries take hold and fester because they will be predator in nature on their neighbors and then eventually pote...

Still it was terrorism. It is not as if, if you were affected by an awful grotesque anti-Muslim video and your response to that is to attack...

if we are not helping the moderates, nonextremists in Syria, if we are sitting back now as Iraq becomes a sanctuary for al-Qaeda...

But we cannot leave. We did that once. We left the region after the Soviet withdrawal and we paid a major price for that.