[7thson]

I have asked a liberal acquaintance the same question. I get the standard you're too dumb to understand answer, which pisses me off. I am considering vowing to have no personal contact with anyone lib or leftist. I ask the question, after Afghanistan, what should we have done? I pose the possibility that if we had not gone into Iraq, the same thing happening in Iraq now would be happening in Afghanistan, with the added bonus of a in-power Saddam funding money, weapons, and personnel. Iran and Iraq would join together against us. I never get an answer only it is or was wrong to go into Iraq. They never explain why.

A few weeks ago, O'Reilly had Michael Brown - the son of Ron "The Bagman" Brown - and asked him what should we do to fight the WOT. Brown answered we should do as Al Gore said, go after the terrorists where they are. BOR pounced - asking him does that mean we start invading country after country. Do we then go into Pakistan, the Philippines, Iran, Checnya, etc. He had no answer and realized he was caught.

You will never get an answer because they have not thought it through. I think most of them are incapable of thinking it through. I have seen The Path To 9/11, am reading The Looming Tower, and saw Obsession this weekend. The result? It is giving me nightmares. I am truly terrified for the future of this country and my grandchildren. I am confused why people cannot recognize the danger. It is turning me more and more towards prayer.

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "It is turning me more and more towards prayer."

Me, too. I know how cornball this sounds, but when I pray at night before I go to bed, after I finish thanking Him for the blessings I have, I ask Him to look after the President and the troops, and to continue blessing my country. Sometimes, when no solution presents itself to seemingly insoluble problems, personal or political, the only thing left to do is turn it over to Someone who can handle it.

It's how I make it through the day.