We think alike.
My military training has caused me to subconsciously survey my environment for threats and look for weaknesses in security wherever I am. It would be extremely easy to build some kind of explosive device and detonate it in a highly occupied area. I also fear massive attacks on schools that would paralyze parents. I'm truly astounded that we have yet to see the type of suicide bombings that Israel deals with on a regular basis.
We live in such an open society that it is indefensible in its current state.
I too miss the good ol' days when all you had to worry about was getting to work on time and making it to Friday.
Makes me want to just give it all up and move deep into the mountains of Eastern North Carolina, Tennessee or Kentucky. I like to think that in some quiet country mountain pocket there exists a peaceful time and place that our parents knew when they were children.
Which we should expect in a nation built on individual liberties. We are, however, wholly unequipped to deal with an enemy that strikes from within, and I don't think we could possibly change that until every person here sincerely feared for their lives.
Realistically, we don't. Sure, we fear that DC or NYC could be a target again, but even then it's always going to be the other guy who gets it.
But when the average housewife fears going to the grocery store, the political landscape will change. Not for the better, I think. I don't want to see cops with submachineguns patrolling our sidewalks like we see in so many countries today. But it might happen. And I think it will happen when the terrorists strike Main Street USA.
If you ever get there, send for me. Sigh.
I am very suspicious of the word "diversity."
I too miss the good ol' days when all you had to worry about was getting to work on time and making it to Friday.
Yes, and what to wear out on Friday night. :)
I have been a military "brat" and dependent all my life. So military matters are embedded in my head.
Makes me want to just give it all up and move deep into the mountains of Eastern North Carolina, Tennessee or Kentucky. I like to think that in some quiet country mountain pocket there exists a peaceful time and place that our parents knew when they were children.
I live north. WAY north. Potato fields and all that. I am thankful to live where I do today. There isn't enough money to make me move back to the big cities. No way.
Joel Skousen sugests that the intermountain west is the safest place with Provo, UT the best of all.
http://www.joelskousen.com