In response to a piece of rebuttal 3:

In reply to:

Canada is not a major world power, and you don't see terrorists going after it, even though it has a largely similar world view.



Canada is NOT a world power, and that is precisely the point. Besides, targeting Canada would be essentially the same as targeting the US. The US is not at all likely to sit idly by and watch one of it's closest allies get hammered.