“Blowback,” as it’s called, is a controversial thesis, but it does explain why Osama bin Laden goes after America and not, say, Switzerland.

This is a favorite rhetorical trope of anti-interventionists: If only we had a neutral foreign policy like Switzerland, terrorism would never have come to our shores. But it’s simply not true that Switzerland has never suffered an attack by Middle Eastern terrorists. ~John Tabin, responding to Jim Pinkerton

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It’s also simply not true that Jim Pinkerton (or any other realist or non-interventionist) claimed any such thing.  Way to tackle that straw man!  As the quote makes clear, Pinkerton is talking about Bin Laden.  You may have heard of him–a tallish fellow, long beard, bad attitude, lots of money.  When Al Qaeda hits targets in Switzerland (or Sweden or Norway or San Marino), maybe then Tabin will have a point.