Sadly, we are being led, if not driven to complacency by a government who is not serious about domestic security. Individual citizens have neither the resources nor the power to address the real problems that would bring added security to this Country, be it at our ports, our airports or our borders. And when the government who is supposed to protect us does not lead by example, how can it not eventually lead to feelings of hopelessness or helplessness amongst the masses?
I would rather this not become a political rant, but folks need to realize that as long as our Government rules and justifies it's actions predominantly with the liberal use of fear, we are neither safer nor on any rational path to becoming so.
Let's not forget 9/11 and at the same time learn from it. Start by heeding some of the bipartisan 9/11 Comission recommendations. Start by recognizing a mistake and backing away from a war that we cannot win. Start by understanding our enemies, studying why they feel the way they do, then make intelligent decisions on how to address or counter their negative attitudes and actions toward us.
I think we all recognize this is a great Country. But at the same time we must recognize that not all of the world shares our values and beliefs and as such, ramming our idea of democracy down their throats is perhaps not the most well thought out move.
3,000 innocent people lost their lives on 9/11. 3700 innocent Iraqis lost theirs just in the month of July. That would be the equivalent of 37,000 Americans dying here, yet the media still has some running joke of a debate on whether that's a civil war that we're stuck in the middle of.
Sometimes perspective is needed to better understand what it is we are facing.
