Thanks for your opinion.....Dick.
Posted on 08/05/2004 10:36:58 AM PDT by ejdrapes
This guy is living in another world. Al Qaeda et al don't want to terrorize the U.S., they want to bring us down. Maybe that's the difference between the pinks in the politics/media and the rest of us. They think that these guys just want to scare us.
America does have enemies - crazy, sadistic, tenacious, growing and wily enemies. America is an open and ethnically diverse society with vast borders, huge tourism and immigration.
So the country is of course vulnerable to terrorism. After 9/11, Americans feel that acutely and perhaps that is sad. But no one in government underestimates the country's vulnerability or the power of the unconventional enemy.
This does not, however, add up to a nation in danger. It adds up to something that sounds too callous for politicians to say out loud. America is vulnerable to the tragedy and trauma of a terrorists attacks. There is a much more remote danger of an act of terror with a nuclear device that could eclipse 9/11. But there is no danger of the equivalent of war on our soil, of mass loss of life, of a crippled economy, disrupted civilian life and destabilized government.
Israel is in danger. Palestinians are in danger. Iraq is in danger. Sudan is in danger. Colombia is in danger. America is not in danger.
And America is not at war.
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Guess it depends on what the meaning of "danger" is!
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=danger
dan·ger noun
1. Exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk. \
I think Dick may be an idiot, let me check the definition!
This mo-ron forgets how much havoc a few envelopes with a bit of anthrax caused. How 'bout a nice designer blight unleashed on food crops, or a few Jihadis infected with plague or smallpox, circulating themselves all over the country, or a whole heap of anthrax letters in the mail? Mr. Meyer don't think much, do he?
Delusional.
Thanks for your opinion.....Dick.
What he's saying without coming right out and saying it is that terrorist strikes within the US will not be on a large enough scale to be considered dangerous.
In other words, we should take a few for the Gipper.
This man is not aware of the fact that nuclear weapons constitute "danger." (There was collaboration between Pakistan, North Korea, Libya, Iran, and Iraq to build nuclear capabilities. Iran is well on its way. The U.S. inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, testified before Congress last March that Saddam had a nuclear program underway. The U.S. recently transferred a large amount of enriched uranium (enough for one nuclear bomb) from Iraq back to the U.S. for safekeeping. Iraq was negotiating with North Korea for long range missiles and was also supplying Iraqi nuclear scientists to Libya.)
Don't do too much of that! He's lost his freakin mind, lately, in case you haven't noticed... I've about given up on that "Politickle Gong Show," as only Tony has any sense left while everyone else is turning left!!!
Good post...DID WE ARCHIVE THIS?
LOL! Why don't the CBS folks wear clown makeup?
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