Look where we are at today. The country is fiercely divided. According to recent intelligence, Al Qaida is JUST AS STRONG today as they were on 9/11, and just as poised to attack the U.S. Iraq is in chaos; 10's of thousands have died, and millions have been displaced. We're in it for a half trillion so far, and probably at least twice that when all is said & done. And no end is in sight.
The worst part? As a nation, we are not able to have an honest discussion about how to address terrorism & security threats to America, and we haven't been able to have such a discussion in years. There is a significant portion of the country who buy into "we have to fight them there so we won't have to fight 'em here," and anyone else is basically a traitor. It's crazy how many times I've asked a Bushie "why did we attack Iraq?", only to have a response like "Don't you remember 9/11? We had to do something!," as though the only options for national security are attacking a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, or sit on our hands & appease, appease, appease.
Actually, that's not the worst part. The worst part is that the fools who got us into this mess are as defiant as ever, and show no signs of ever learning a lesson from this mess, which is the only silver lining that could be hoped for at this point.
It's really our duty as Americans to always question authority...the guys who dumped tea into the Boston Harbor would shudder at the blind allegiance displayed by so many at the outset of the Iraq War & in the years since. That's not what we are about. Dissent IS patriotic....
The worst part? As a nation, we are not able to have an honest discussion about how to address terrorism & security threats to America, and we haven't been able to have such a discussion in years. There is a significant portion of the country who buy into "we have to fight them there so we won't have to fight 'em here," and anyone else is basically a traitor. It's crazy how many times I've asked a Bushie "why did we attack Iraq?", only to have a response like "Don't you remember 9/11? We had to do something!," as though the only options for national security are attacking a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, or sit on our hands & appease, appease, appease.
Actually, that's not the worst part. The worst part is that the fools who got us into this mess are as defiant as ever, and show no signs of ever learning a lesson from this mess, which is the only silver lining that could be hoped for at this point.
It's really our duty as Americans to always question authority...the guys who dumped tea into the Boston Harbor would shudder at the blind allegiance displayed by so many at the outset of the Iraq War & in the years since. That's not what we are about. Dissent IS patriotic....
