[dubyagee]

"All of our lives" don't need to change, as they keep prattling on TV. Every single time there is a terrorist attack -- or a plane crashes because of pilot error -- Americans allow their rights to be contracted for no purpose whatsoever.

Disagree with this point only, we should never grow as complacent as we have been in the past. Our lives should change to some extent. We should never again take our freedom for granted.

[prov1813man]

It is not complacent to resist giving up the freedoms that make us Americans for no purpose whatsoever. Eliminating Curbside check-in, shaking down "Suzy Chapstick", and any number of other procedures which do nothing more than lull the gullible into a false sense of security, would have done nothing to prevent this weeks atrocities, and will do nothing to prevent them in the future.

In fact, it will take principle and discipline and courage to maintain our way of life in the face of all this. We must insist, demand and as one voice ORDER our political leaders to use our tax dollars for their only legitimate purpose, common defense.

The answer is not to limit our freedoms. The answer is to, at any cost, annihilate all who would dare to challenge our ability to live in peace. The answer is to strike abject terror into the hearts and minds of the opposition.

Rather than admonitions not to take our freedoms for granted, the world must know not to make assumptions about what we will tolerate.

[Terriergal]

I agree - in times of war, our lives will change... but only so that they can go back to being the same. Whereas in other countries, they LIVE that way all the time.