Every Way You Look At It We Lose

From CNN Saturday Morning News.

NGUYEN: There are a lot of warnings out this morning urging Americans to leave. Here's yet another one today issued by the U.S. State Department, which says, and I quote, "U.S. citizens in the Persian Gulf are under attack in that region, and more attacks will continue."

Now, this is a bit of a double-edged sword, because if Americans leave that area, then the terrorists essentially win.

Maybe it's just me, but when Americans stay in the area and are consequently kidnapped and beheaded, don't the terrorists "essentially win" then too?