Actually, Oldguy, we hesitated to go to war in both World Wars until we were directly threatened. In WWI, Wilhelm offered to pay the Mexicans to invade us, and we didn't actually get into the fighting in WWII until the "day that will live in infamy." In Korea and Vietnam, we got involved before we were threatened. Korea was a stalemate and Vietnam was a godawful mess. This war has nothing to do with us being "hit on our own soil." They're not even the same people. If we were going to oust Saddam, we should have done it in 1991, when it made sense, instead of manufacturing a crisis to clean up Daddy's mess.