Today Rush Limbaugh went on a diatribe about how humane treatment of prisoners and our actions in Iraq have no impact on the way the radical Muslims look at the United States. He is correct. It is not the radical Muslim terrorists but how our actions will impact the majority of Muslims.
When stories of mistreatment of prisoners or the continued occupation of Iraq hit the news, radical Muslims use that to recruit more Muslims to join their cause. That is something that Rush Limbaugh and people like him ignore. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in this world and the very last thing the United States needs is to add more terrorists that are willing to conduct another 9/11 or worse. We have handed the radical Muslims a perfect recruiting tool by our invasion of Iraq and by the stories of prisoner mistreatment.