Really, you think that was happening, or about to happen? I lived in Bayonne, NJ at the time of those attacks. And while I said to a friend that I thought the cops should be going door-to-door in Northern NJ (inasmuch as I thought that if the IRA had done it they should be going door-to-door in Woodside, Queens) but there was nothing like that going on, nor was it about to go on.
That was all BS, and continued to be BS, and continues to be BS.
There may be isolated instances of bad behaviour, but Americans, for the much most part, are a very fair minded people.
What Pres. Bush did, with his ill considered proviso, was to make sure that we could never really fight the enemy.
We were just going to fight “terrorism”, which would be akin to medicine seeking a cure for “fever”.
The average Muslim has never been in danger in America (if they thought they were presumably they’d leave which they’d be free to do).
We have not accepted the challenge, I don’t know how many times the Jihadis will slap our face with the glove. I guess we’ll just have to let time tell the tale.
Of course it was happening. A lot of innocent people were attacked and killed. And it just didn’t happen in Texas...it happened all over the country. Maybe the media in NJ didn’t report flyover country? Emotions ran high at that time. They would have escalated with every killed soldier. Think about WWII. Same thing.
I agree, Americans for the most part are vey fair minded. But I see a very big difference in how people perceive Muslims after 9/11. Prior to that, things happened in different countries or by a lone perpetrator.
IMHO, we can’t win a war because we try to fight pc and not hurt anybody’s feelings. Plus the “governments” of foreign nations pull us back. This started prior to ME engagement and after WWII. Again, imho, when we fight a war we need to fight to win no matter what it takes. The other alternative is to not spill our soldiers blood for a lost cause.
I’m sure you know that if you take an aspirin...it will break a fever. :)