Many feel that American foreign policy regarding the Middle East is unbalanced. Al-Awlaki’s general message that America is evil resonates well with these same people. The problem is that it is too dichotomous of an approach. The effect of the Al-Awlaki’s rhetoric has been to strengthen the arguments in the U.S. that we have a lot of enemies and that it is better to fight them there than fight them here. Those that argue we should decrease our foreign military presence appear weak and naive.