Courage is doing the very thing that frightens you.
We all conquer fear every day each time we act in spite of ourselves.
At one point he picks up a frightened little girl, dries her tears and says:
I don't ask you to be unafraid, I only ask that you act as if you were.
Works for me.
I don't know, but I want them systematically eradicated, wordlwide and in any nation harboring them. Any nation.
Delay frustrates me, but it does not cause me to doubt our leaders. I have thanked God each day since 9/11 that we have Geo. W. Bush as President. He will do the right thing, and I know in my heart that he is just as pissed off at those worthless, murdering pigs as I am. He faces enormously difficult military and geopolitical problems. The worst thing we could do right now is launch an attack and be less than effective. Bush will attack when he knows it will have the desired impact on the enemy. We must leave them no hope.
I have no fear of domestic terrorists. It is an undeniable statistical fact that there is no more than a minute chance of me falling victim to that. I would not think of giving the terrorists the satisfaction of causing me to change any of my plans or habits. I'll fly on any damn plane I want to. I'll sit down next to the first Arab I see, give him a good hard stare, and dare him to so much as get up to go to the bathroom.
Here is a real fear I do have: I fear that during the next 25 years my kids and grandkids will not have the freedom, prosperity and security I have known. What happens over the next 12 months will have a lot to do with that. Aren't you glad it is Bush and not clinton/gore who will lead us through during that time?
Waaaayyy back in the mid nineties, a guy by the name of Yossef Bodansky was writing papers telling the Clinton administration about a little thing called the Trans-Asian Axis. He was naming names - Iraq, Iran, Syria, PAKISTAN, Afghanistan and CHINA. So, when we see those who we have elected ostensibly to give us a better alternative to the scum that inhabited the Executive for 8 years, our hope was that the new crowd might actually listen. Thus far, we have been disappointed. When one makes that statement "and those who harbor and aid them" one is necessarily talking about the Trans-Asian Axis (which, ever since the signing of the Shanghai Pact, also includes RUSSIA). And yet, we are fooling around with some sort of "expendable" coalition that INCLUDES SOME OF THE HARBORING / AIDING COUNTRIES!! It is truly that simple and truly that horrendous. The truth is, a real "War On Terrorism" would be a war between the US and our allies against the TRANS-ASIAN AXIS. Otherwise known as WWIII. That's the bottom line. The attack on US SOIL by agents / clients / proxies of THE TRANS-ASIAN AXIS merits a very specific and very unpallateable but, strategically necessary reponse - WWIII. Sorry to pop your balloon, that's the harsh reality. And thus far, our leaders are either doing a disinfo bit, precisely because in order to win such a conflict, we need surprise, or, more likely, they lack the stones to do what is strategically required to really win.
Forgive my language, but you are blessed with the uncanny ability to cut through the crap from the media and others at this site.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experience with the rest of us.