| perception is reality, and what people outside of this country and a lot inside it too see is $$$$ and the power that backs it up.
The reality of the situation, that not even close to every one in this country is consumed by greed and hate of anyone that gets in the way of more $$ and power, is irrelevant, because there are people whose perception and prejudice and hate of us is strong enough that they wanted to crash planes into the WORLD TRADE CENTERS-the symbol of the $$$
whether or not wars are justified because of this reaction to a flawed assumption by a minority of our middle eastern 'friends' is an argument that I would like to avoid. However, I will point out that wars will not solve this problem. I have no magic solution, but I think I can see clearly enough to realize that more violence will only escalate the hostilities. The only way to solve the problem this way is to eliminate it. I estimate that you would have to kill over a billion muslims and other factions/nationalities, before the rest of them would be cowed enough to go into hiding and not risk confrontation with the United States of....the World? We started the job by reelecting Bush, but I don't know if anyone has the stomach to finish it. Don't get me wrong, I think Kerry would have been a horrific president too, but the future that could be coming could be even more horrible. |