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Originally Posted by tabs
The danger of Al Qaedea is that so few can cause so much carnage.
Shaun How many times have U heard me say that Americans are distracted with the Super Bowl and bought off with their SUVs, Big Screen TV and Ranch style home in the burbs. How many times have U heard me say Americans are the fatted calf, that their job is to consume.
The Bush admin can scream anything they like about everybody who has a question about their policies being traitors. That don't make it so, and the next Prez is gona be complaining about something else. Remember Hillary complaining about the vast Right Wing conspiracy....
More frightening to me is that students on college campus' are shouted down and ostrasized for stating unpopular postions.
I have long said Americans since the end of WW2 have never gone through hard times, never felt that they were at the mercy of events and had no control. Americans have been living off the fat of the land for so long they feel they are ENTITLED to being number 1 and don't have to make sacrafices. The rest of the world for the most part doesn't have that luxury.
I went to China back in the late 80s and when I returned to the USA I was struck that America is like Disneyland by comparison. I also had seen the economic development in China where they were making something out of nothing...they were pulling themselves up by the boot straps as it were.
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The danger of al Quaeda is minimal in the grand scheme and nothing that covert operations can't handle. I've been saying we should greatly expand that side of the Military for a while now. We need 200 teams of 5 doing what needs to be done around the world. the standard US Military can't keep dirty bombs, gas and such out of their hands, but ops teams can. With our current level of technology, it's about time and money to make this happen. Al Quaeda is spread all around the world. Big hammers don't apply.
You've been and continue to be spot on concerning the American public.
The Bush Admin is irrelevant by now with only 20% of the public really paying attention. People have moved on to their Mochalattas, fascinated with the new crop coming up. It is at least comforting to know we have a few true leaders and smart people running on both sides. I'm looking forward to the day, sometime early in 09 when it won't be cool to be stupid anymore.