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What should be done?

First of all, stop the hysteria. Stand back and ask how this could have happened. Ask how a prosperous country isolated by two oceans could have so embroiled itself in other people's business that someone would want to do us harm. Even sitting in the middle of Europe, Switzerland isn't beset by terrorist attacks, because the Swiss mind their own business.

That has a lot to do with the fact the "business" of the Swiss is laundering the world's rogues' dirty money.

Second, resolve that we won't let our leaders use this occasion to commit their own terrorist acts upon more innocent people, foreign and domestic, that will inspire more terrorist attacks in the future.

What particular terrorist attack by our leaders is Harry suggesting brought this one about? Does he know? Does he care to elaborate?

Harry...are you saying the US should "learn a lesson" from the terrorists that did this? That if the US lets Bin Laden or whoever slip away without retribution, he will call a moratorium on American targets?

Third, find a way, with enforceable constitutional limits, to prevent our leaders from ever again provoking this kind of anger against America.

Harry, Harry, Harry...what is it America can do to prevent "provoking anger" in people willing to fly planes into buildings?

Hey, Harry...what did the US do to the Japanese to "provoke their anger?"

One more over here, Harry...in your America, would you just count on other nations not wanting to conquer the world's richest, most influential, and most envied nation?

I voted for Harry. Gawd....I was initially in the
Green Party, before I realized that their first name
"Red Party" didn't go over very well. Green, like money...Hey..that'll sell.
I was "Natural Law" for awhile too.
And "Reform"
I'm just disenfranchised.
We're a world economy with huge energy needs to fuel our
huge economy. How the *hell* are we supposed to keep to ourselves!?!
If I have a ranch and the M*F* next door wont take care of his
Hoof and Mounth problem and I've got NO ONE else to turn to
, guess what? I'm gonna solve it.

Those people are seriously memetically compromised.
Time for some serious disinfectant.
But I could be wrong.

Hey, Harry...what did the US do to the Japanese to "provoke their anger?"

Cut off their oil.

It is now proven that Cordell Hull and Franklin Roosevelt deliberately provoked the Japanese into the war. There is also strong indication that they knew about the attack in advance.

I'm not exactly with Mr. Browne here, but if we're too dumb to close our public schools and develop a body politic with sufficient brains to keep tabs on the corporate thugs raiding the planet behind the skirts of our military we do deserve what we get.

Hey, Harry...what did the US do to the Japanese to "provoke their anger?" Harry is right, they not only cut off their oil, but Japan was fighting a major war in China, with over a million troops over there. By cutting off the oil, Japan would have lost a million men, since they would not have been able to supply their troops. Japan had no choice but to restore their oil supplies, or else most certainly take a million causalties. Many leaders in Japan did not want to fight the u.s., since they knew in the long run they would lose to us, but the immediate problem in 1941 was the million Japanese troops on Chinese soil who would be without food or ammunition unless the oil was restored.

There is no question that Roosevelt absolutely knew that the Japanese had no choice but to retaliate and get those american ships out of the way of their oil war supplies.