(CNSNews.com) – Building the Ground Zero mosque is a necessary gesture of goodwill to keep the growth of terrorism in the Muslim world at bay. That is the position of Matthew Alexander, a former senior Air Force interrogator in Iraq and author of How to Break a Terrorist.

“Building this mosque will deprive Al Qaeda of its number one recruiting tool, and by doing that will help bring an end to this conflict,” Alexander said.

Alexander (a pseudonym) claims that construction of the planned Islamic cultural center near the site where terrorists flew planes into the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center -- killing 2,752 people -- is an issue of national security.

“Our national security strategy can’t be based on stopping terrorist attacks. That will be an endless whack-a-mole strategy, if you will, for the next 200 years if we decide to do that. Our national security strategy has to be based on stopping Al Qaeda’s ability to recruit new fighters.

Alexander spoke with CNSNews.com during a conference call Wednesday hosted by Faith in Public Life, a liberal religious group that describes itself as “a strategy center advancing faith in the public square as a positive and unifying force for justice, compassion and the common good.”

CNSNews.com asked Alexander “why building an Islamic community center in New York City, which already has over 100 mosques, is so vital to national security?”

He replied: “It’s the debate that has made it important to national security because now it is in the spotlight".

“When someone approaches them [Muslims] from Al Qaeda and tries to recruit them and convince them that Americans don’t stand for the principles of freedom and justice and that we are at war with Islam, something like the debate over this mosque can seriously influence that person’s decision.”

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BULLSHIT. - Allowing the construction of an Islamic Victory Mosque at the site where the soldiers of allah slaughtered 3,000 Americans is not going to deter one muslim from joining al qaeda. In fact, it would probably have exactly the opposite effect and serve as a recruiting tool.

What would deter al qaeda's recruiting of young muslim men is for the young muslim men to have the knowledge that most of the men recruited last month are now being eaten by little scavenger animals in the mountains of Afghanistan. To accomplish this, we need a president with balls enough to lift the restrictions and constraints on the U.S. military fighting in Afghanistan. Richard Nixon may have been a crook, but he won the Vietnam war in December 1972 during the 11 days of "Linebacker II".