ping to post #121; I think you're spot on, gonzo. Now, how sad is that?
Well, it's not so sad as much as it is a revelation. 'We're on our own' just means that we now can be sure that our Government simply does NOT take the 'War-on-Terror' seriously. Americans who do had better wake-up, and be prepared to defend themselves, because our Government won't!
After 9/11, I too thought that Bush was looking for a big rock, and sorta expected that Saudi-Arabia would be re-named 'Texaco' by now. After the initial sucesses in Afghanistan and Iraq, it looked like we were gonna be serious about putting the 'hurt' on ALL of islam. They hit us, and it was an 'object-lesson' for us - so we give them an 'object-lesson' back, only 1000 times bigger!
It didn't happen, and our progress slowed to a crawl.
We're in a war, but started prosecuting our own soldiers for fighting the war to win. Abu-Graib(sp?) - who cares? Marines killed some combatants? - GOOD JOB! "Now get the lawyers in here, and turn this into a 'democracy-building', 'peace-keeping' mission, and let Moolah-Sadr go loose." Insanity? - you bet!
There's no doubt that the USA has been, and is doing wonderful things in Iraq, for the Iraqis, but if we fast-forward to today, we've seen our politicos commit near-treason in their attempts to derail our 'War-on-Terror', and suffer no consequences. Our enemies laugh at them, and continue their war on us.
We've seen our so-called leaders and our President campaign again for yet another stupid 'Shamnesty' bill without regard to all the lying bills they've passed in the last twenty years, and they still haven't built a secure border! The illegal aliens laugh at them, and continue to flood into America, and some of them are enemy combatants!
We are on our own, and with 'political-correctness', 'diversity', 'hate-crimes', 'tolerance', and even 'hate-speech' being forced on us daily, things are gonna get worse. We're on our own, and we're gonna have to take care of ourselves. Now, count those mosques in your neighbourhoods, and be careful ...................... FRegards
Maybe both.