Hi Jim,
for the most part I feel you have been right on, but even with what you have said, I find lacking in your view the true inevitability of what these acts portend. I am stunned beyond belief at the conventional attitude that seems to dwell in the mind of most that I have heard and read. I truly believe that many of our leaders, not to mention citizens, have been blinded by the incomprehensibility of it all. If I had given you two scenarios to debate as to their POSSIBILITY - one, that there had been a small atomic device detonated in a plaza in Tel Aviv, OR - that two passenger aircraft highjacked by terrorists had caused the leveling of the WTC Twin Towers - WHICH would you have deemed possible? - Probably the former. I am convinced that most of our leaders and citizens have by instinct secluded themselves in the spheres of the Idealistic and to some degree the Romantic. The sphere we had better begin to gravitate to is the one of Realism and the quicker the better. There are extreme variables involved here that go far beyond training camps, passports, interest rate cuts and whether Pakistan is willing to work with our country. It is my profound belief that IF HISTORY CAN BE RECORDED 100 years from now, the biggest distinction between our generation and that of our fathers will be that they had the ability to recognize war when they saw and we failed to.
Whether we like it or not, we have been attacked and had better wake up to this fact and respond accordingly or suffer unimaginable consequences. If I hear one more time that the United States should go into ANY country and rid it of any of it's ROTTEN ZEALOTS I will throw up. To hell with individuals or their camps and training sights. War does not provide such luxury and ease. The guilty supporting countries WILL CO-OPERATE and hand these bastards over or parts of that country BE DAMNED. This has been the painful lesson that weak, scared, idealistic, liberal and submissive countries have learned through the ages. As Sherman and many others have said, " War Is Hell " and we had better get use to it. What we witnessed in New York was not the one time bombing of a 110 story Pizza Hut, no, it was the destruction of over 225 acres of building and contents of our Financial Heart in less than two hours. In comparison, the entire Pentagon complex including it’s vacant space is only 34 acres. To my way of thinking it is nothing more than a Planned Prologue on the part of this group for the destruction of Israel via the anger and reaction of the United States and if we do not take the proper steps at this juncture while we still have the capability, then there is little doubt in my mind we can get ready for the destruction of Western Civilization as we know it, with millions perishing in the process.
Selah,
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