Life in this country has been so damn easy for so long, it has become almost second nature for Americans not to take any real problem seriously, especially if it isn’t laying right on our doorstep. When terrorism briefly made an appearance on our shores seven years ago, we couldn’t help but offer up some of our short attention span. Our enemies had briefly and spectacularly varied from the courtesy they usually show by attacking our citizens and our interests overseas.Because the Bush Administration has ignored our whiny objections and kept us safe by wiretapping terrorists and aggressively interrogating detainees, Americans have been allowed to return to their blissful neglect of the reality of the threat.
Dan gets it right!
Mubai remided me more of another rampage on Long Island, where Colin Ferguson gunned down helpless unarmed passengers on an LIRR train on December 7, 1993.
Ferguson tried to get off with a defense that he was driven insane by “black rage” caused because he lived in an oppressive society. Ultimately, that defense was rejected and Ferguson was sentenced to 300+ years in jail.
I thought “Let’s roll” was the last phone transmission from the jet that crashed in Pennsylvania. I don’t recall President Bush making that statement.