Ezekiel wrote:
"We should just admit that we are the declining Holy Roman empire, that el Presidente Jorge Shrub is Charlemagne, and go kick some barbarian ass. It's our best option."
This is one of the most sensible comments I've heard on this situation.
Of course, "kicking barbarian ass" just would never fly.
Heck, we can't even call "Islamic Terrorists" barbarians, or even by the appropriate label of "Islamic" terrorists.
Remember, "Islam" means "peace" even though it's literal translation really means "submission."
That's what I find so maddening in this situation. We suffered the single worst mass-casualty attack on US soil since Robert E. Lee's last invasion of the North in 1863, killing even more Americans on American soil than the attack on Pearl Harbor.
But only five years later, most of the country is completely asleep to the fact that significant number of radical Muslims really do want us all dead.
Another sizeable chunk of the country thinks that radical Muslims are not a problem, but that Bushco is our worst enemy.
Some of the second group even believe that radical Muslims don't really exist, and are nothing more than a Reichstag Fire Show put on by Bushco.
I think the Patriot Act, et al, is draconian and onerous.
I think the Bush administration has bungled some things. But even Abraham Lincoln himself bungled picking the leadership of the Army of the Potomac over and over and over.
But I think lots of Americans just don't "get it" when it comes to this war.
And I'm afraid that it'll take another 9/11, only this time with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of US casualties for lots of folks to finally "get it."
And when that day does come, it might prove absolutely fatal for whatever freedom we currently have left. It'll wake everyone up finally, but it might just be too late by then.
hillbilly
"We should just admit that we are the declining Holy Roman empire, that el Presidente Jorge Shrub is Charlemagne, and go kick some barbarian ass. It's our best option."
This is one of the most sensible comments I've heard on this situation.
Of course, "kicking barbarian ass" just would never fly.
Heck, we can't even call "Islamic Terrorists" barbarians, or even by the appropriate label of "Islamic" terrorists.
Remember, "Islam" means "peace" even though it's literal translation really means "submission."
That's what I find so maddening in this situation. We suffered the single worst mass-casualty attack on US soil since Robert E. Lee's last invasion of the North in 1863, killing even more Americans on American soil than the attack on Pearl Harbor.
But only five years later, most of the country is completely asleep to the fact that significant number of radical Muslims really do want us all dead.
Another sizeable chunk of the country thinks that radical Muslims are not a problem, but that Bushco is our worst enemy.
Some of the second group even believe that radical Muslims don't really exist, and are nothing more than a Reichstag Fire Show put on by Bushco.
I think the Patriot Act, et al, is draconian and onerous.
I think the Bush administration has bungled some things. But even Abraham Lincoln himself bungled picking the leadership of the Army of the Potomac over and over and over.
But I think lots of Americans just don't "get it" when it comes to this war.
And I'm afraid that it'll take another 9/11, only this time with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of US casualties for lots of folks to finally "get it."
And when that day does come, it might prove absolutely fatal for whatever freedom we currently have left. It'll wake everyone up finally, but it might just be too late by then.
hillbilly