What gets me is that we hobble the administration at every turn, kvetch about all kinds of things, distract and complain, armchair quarterback...and then when we end up with an actual attack we have the unmitigated gall to blame the president.
I wish I could say it was just the press. I used to think so. But now I realize we are all culpable. Frankly, I'm disappointed in us.
Whine, whine, whine. You missed your stop. Skinner would love your support.
The sad thing is a lot of people here on FR will blame Bush for the next terrorist attack.
Well put. If we as Americans would not respond to this kind of demagoguery put out by the Democrats and the far left about wiretapping, the Patriot Act, etc. they would not feel they could use these things to beat the president over the head with. Instead, we have a media culture that feels no shame or pressure to NOT refrain from publishing sensitive national security information like the NSA wiretaps, so they get away with it. People will still buy their papers and still reflexively vote for the Democratic politicians who use these important national security programs as political fodder to attack the president with and make not so subtle implications they'll impeach the president if put in control of congress. Yet Americans say they'll elect those people to control Congress in the fall, while punishing the president and his party who implemented these protections. As you say, I'm disappointed in us. I never thought I'd see the country turn against the president and all he's done to take on our enemies after what we all witnessed on that terrible day in September nearly 5 years ago. Unfortunately I over-estimated my fellow citizens.
Not me, Polly. I'm all for the Limbaugh definition of the military which is to kill people and break things. You feel better including yourself in all that culpability, be my guest, but just keep me out of it, Polly.