[cothrige]

Well put. As I see it we have made mistake after mistake, and are making more as we speak. Every time the moment arises to react with purpose and strength against the aggression of Islam, what do we do? Bend over and suck up. It really does make me sick. We couldn't drill for oil in our own reserves, and now Obama has stopped drilling offshore. Money, money and more money to our buddies in Saudi Arabia. Clinton had chances to get bin Laden, and didn't do it. He had attacks to respond to, and didn't, or at least not effectively or with courage. What did America under Clinton actually do to respond to the obviously mounting hostility of these people, to use the term very loosely, and by doing that avoid the inevitable on 9/11? Effectively nothing. And while after 9/11 Bush did do better he wasn't really much better. We still funnelled billions of dollars to the arabs, and he even allowed a rather shocking number of people with potential connections to bin Laden to leave the US after the WTC attacks just because he wanted to please the Saudis. And to see him walking, hand in hand with that Saudi prince like he was his girlfriend, that just about made me sick physically. It was the perfect image of how America treats her enemies and why we were so vulnerable to attack in the first place.

And then there is Israel and Iran. Here we are, sitting back waiting to see if tiny little Israel, the only nation in the Middle East that doesn't have a holiday dedicated to our destruction, will do something we don't like to Iran. We are throwing Israel, our only real allies over their, under the bus because we want to suck up to who? Muslims! Un-frickin-believable. And people tell me about weakness and softness. You want soft, look at our foreign policy and there it is. This is what America does about Islam and terrorism. In the future when more attacks come down I won't hesitate to hang responsibility right where it belongs. People can say I blame America all they want, but until we admit the facts we cannot fix anything, and really do what needs to be done.

[dcwusmc]

In my never to be humble opinion, our next move, as a nation, MUST be to restore God to His proper place in our continuum and depose, however we must, the left/liberal/progressive influence in our politics and restore our God-given Constitution to ITS rightful place as Supreme Law of the Land.

After that, we can deal with our EXTERNAL enemies, as they are not a serious threat to our freedoms so much as our homegrown leftists and progressives are. And THEY only if we continue to hide our heads in the sand and pretend that all is well in the world if only we just elect so and so ‘cause he is such a serious REPUBLICAN after all. It has gone far beyond parties, with there being effectively only ONE major party. So it must then break down into playing Cowboys and Progressives before we can play Cowboys and Mohammedans.