If you think the dissenters have gone away over the last three years, you're too inattentive to be hired as a cub reporter, much less as editorial page editor.
What an ass. All we hear is criticism of administration policies, or does this "journalist" not read what Gore, Pelosi, Kerry, Kennedy, Clinton, et al. are saying?
Nazi brownshirts infest the media.
The reporter is dismayed that dissenters are not being heralded. Therefore, the problem must be the small number of dissenters not the flawed message of dissenters. Never mind that the latter perpetuates the former.
Dear Mr. Kanelis,
Your article today was interesting. I believe you "hit the nail on the head" with the following statement:
Maybe it was the goons who introduced the United States to their monstrous brand of terrorism on Sept. 11, 2001. They hit us on our own turf, not in some nightclub or military barracks far away. That could bring about a fundamental change in many Americans' outlook about freedom."
It is my opinion that most average Americans realized at that moment on September 11, 2001 that our country is at war. Most Americans realize that "they" want all of us either dead or living in their 15th-century style of government.
I believe most Americans recognize the threat to the continued existence of the United States of America posed by the 9/ll terrorists, Al Qaeda, and their associates. Without our country's existence, the "right of assembly," "freedom of speech," the right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances," and all of the other freedoms guaranteed by the US Constitution would merely be words on a piece of paper.
I just wonder why it is that most journalists and many politicians don't seem to get it!
Signed___
[I wonder if I will receive a response from the author?]