#112 Laura – I’m not sure how to respond to your post exactly. I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but I “feel” like you are fixated on the islamic terrorist thing, not to say that it isn’t a big big thing to worry about. Yes, everything reasonable should be done to stop that and I’m all for it, but I can’t help but think the terrorists won on 9/11. We went into two wars, took our eye off of our economy, still haven’t solved the security problems (because they are REALLY hard to solve) and in the process, we took a much bigger hit on the chin by getting scared by what they did. It was awful, dreadful. The true impact to us was what we did in response to it. We let our economy suffer, and we have lost more soldiers trying to fight it than we lost civilians because of it. The question is did we deserve to lose those brave soldiers lives…did we do everything we could to benefit from the time they’ve bought us…did we shore up our borders, did we lock down our country? Did we do what those soliders fought for by letting our economy (and the soliders families lives) fall to this state of disrepair?
This is certainly not a criticism of anything you said, Laura. I just feel like we reacted…we didn’t think it through, and I think in the process we missed the mark. Terrorism is a major concern, and we CAN’T let it happen again, but I fear we did more harm to ourselves than they did to us. Either side of the aisle, we need to be less reactionary, and more deliberate, and we all need to pick and chose what we really, at our core, believe in so we can do the right things. If we all continue to bicker about “farm subsidies” (or whatever) we’re going to miss the bigger picture.
Jack
