Srexley, whatever you do, don't try to plan policy because every action has repurcussions and unintended consequences and you really can't think very deeply or see very far past 9/11, can you?
If people like you do any more to "protect" me, I may have to pick up another M-16 and defend myself here at home. What's your next step to protect me; inflate another incident with China into a major diplomatic fiasco? Insult N. Korea and refuse to engage in effective diplomacy with them? Set different standards for dealing with nations with nuclear weapons and therefore start an emerging nations arms race for nukes? Thumb your nose at those nations in Europe, Asia and the Mideast that are most critical in our fight for intelligence and containment of terrorists? Piss off most of the populations of the world; you know, those populations that whose support is critical for the survival or terrorists? Bankrupt our budget in a war in Iraq whose only purpose could have been the control of Mideastern oil, and then fail in that purpose and be left with a horrible, chaotic mess that serves as a breeding ground for terrorists and makes America the great look like America the senseless and impotent? Or maybe you want to attack France. You know the country that was so wrong about there being insufficient proof that Iraq had wmds or was an imminent threat to the world and needed to be immediately invaded?
3,000 people died at the hands of international terrorists and in their name we have wrapped ourselves in grief and outrage, attacked Iraq, and become the bad guy instead of the victim in the eyes of most of the world. In the process thousands more have died AND WE'RE LESS SAFE THAN WE WERE BEFORE. If there's a "jackass," it's people like you that just can't figure it out. My suggestion is that you get some pom poms and sit in front of Fox news. Whenever Cheney says that Iraq has "reconstituted" it's nuclear program or Bush says 9/11 and Iraq in the same phrase over and over again, you can jump up and down and do little cheers to make yourself feel good.
Whenever you hear about another American dying in Iraq or mistakenly killing another man, woman or child, you can swell with pride knowing that they served America well since, after all, when it's all over we'll have done?????? That'a tough one, isn't it? The we'll have done ______ seems to change every month, doesn't it?
Don't cry your tears over 9/11 to me. I don't care how much pain you feel over that because it's not relevant. What's relevant is what we have done since, how effective that's been and what we'll do in the future. That doesn't take a grown man wearing his grief like a medal, it takes adults that can view the world as a complex, fluid soup of values, cultures and solutions. You, like Bush and his testosterone flooded "posse," should leave that to the real adults. You know, people that can think with their brains and not their anger and grief. |
