Wow, you've thought about this a lot. Depressing, actually, but dead on. We'd better get our act together in the US, or it will be too late.
Actually, my husband tells me I don't talk enough, that I am far too quiet. It is because I like to think things through before I open my trap.
If things are left entirely as they are, there will eventually be another major terrorist attack in the US and there will be plenty of smaller ones, perhaps even suicide bombings.
9/11 roused part of the country, these additional attacks will shake the lethargy from a huge number more. A Kerry presidency will not change any of this. In fact a Kerry presidency will insure it. Pascifism in the face of this will not stand.
The worst case scenario is things will degenerate in the US to the point of explosive vigilante- ism much the way things happen in India.
The leftist pacifists in the country will get no pass from Islam. Since they predominantly prefer to make war on noncombatants, they make the perfect targets.
>>Wow, you've thought about this a lot. Depressing, actually, but dead on. We'd better get our act together in the US, or it will be too late.<<
I think it already is. But then the Bible talks of it quite a bit. This country has already clearly left God and it's original purpose.
This country is like molding food: you don't actually see the mold until it has been growing for some time.
All that said, it is not depressing, but ultimately to be expected. And as one pastor once said, "where would the early church have been if they had put their faith in Rome?"
Countries come and go.