Posted on 05/07/2010 9:39:41 PM PDT by Yaacov
...we are indeed fortunate to this point that the people who want to kill us are, in general, a little bit dumber than we are. This has accorded us a certain measure of safety. They busy themselves detonating small charges in their private parts or leaving the keys to their "other car" in automobiles (to which they hold title) laden with unexplodable devices idling by the curb all of which amounts to the equivalent of a set of Mapquest directions to their homes. We, on the other hand, have distracted ourselves with pastimes fit only for overeducated, self-important, arrogant imbeciles: handicapping our security forces by applying the values and protections of our republic too broadly to the entire human race in general (regardless of whether they "buy in" to our system) We chronically, overestimate our own power, while underestimating the unalterable hatred and contempt our enemies harbor for us and refusing to understand that they simply do not share our values or dreams. On top of all that we insure that we can't even talk or think directly about the danger we face because we have outlawed the very words that must be used if we are to come to any full understanding of what we need to do to protect ourselves....
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