The terrorists DO know what they've wrought and will continue to bring to these shores. It amazes me how many cars I see now with "flags" and stickers after 9/11. These people were nowhere to be found prior. Patriotism is now fashionable. Your assessment of "heroes" is dead on (pun intended). They were nothing more than frightened people fighting for their lives in a case of too little, too late.
The real heroes are the men who are now overseas having to clean up the mess this nations civilians have ignored for the past decade. They were too absorbed in their stock portfolios or watching WWF instead of paying attention to what their elected leaders and government were doing, and too lazy or spineless to take a stand on the issues of moral decay of this country.
But hey, stick a flag on your car and jump up and down shouting "Let's Roll" and you've done your duty. Funny, if you check the recruitment numbers post 9/11, you'll see very little rise in military numbers. It's politics as usual just six short months after 9/11 and the public is back to watching b*tt pirate issues on "Friends", wondering where their next "entitlement" is coming from. Let the next guy spill his blood while I enjoy my entitled life that I am owed by this country.
You know, as much as I despise the terrorists and their mindset, I'll give them this. They are brilliant tacticians. They know exactly where and how we are weak and they know this nation as a whole is too ignorant and self absorbed to do anything about it. Just watch and recall the events that have unfolded in this country in the last six months. Liberties disappearing, political obstructionism, increasing moral decay, public indecision. And the sheeple sit back and keep letting it happen, all the while taking three seconds out of their day to yell "Let's Roll". Oh, there are a few Americans left who understand the difference, but not enough anymore. We know the sad fact is it won't take invading armies to bring us down. This country is no longer spiritual or moral, it's material and self absorbed. The Muslims, Chinese and all other regimes with an agenda know this and are brilliantly exploiting it.
Yep Tracer, prayers are definitely needed. But in a country that denies God, a country and people that has pushed Him out of every aspect of what used to be considered normal life, who could blame Him if he wasn't listening anymore. We put more creedence into Madison Avenue media catch phrases like "Let's Roll" than "In God We Trust".
How dare you try and demean what those on Flight 93 did. Up until 9/11, the normal thing that the FAA and FBI and others said in case of a hijacking, was to go along with the hijackers, and at some point you'll be rescued. It was the safest for all concerned, because up until 9/11, most airliners that were hijacked, the hijackers had motives that had nothing to do with the airplane or the hostages themselves (think freeing political prisoners in elbonia, or making a statement about some perceived wrong)
Those on Flight 93, once they realized what had happened elsewhere, realized they could die like sheep and perhaps allow 1000s more to die, or they could stand up and do something. And they did. And they weren't too late, they prevented thousands more from being killed, how you can say that's "too little, too late" is beyond me.
I will agree with you there.
We see this everyday in the papers, people abusing animals, people ignoring nutty spouses who end up killing their kids, people who get away with murder and then are patted on the back (God will punish OJ and others, I'm sure of it, it may not be in this world, but it will be in the next). People are doing more and more horrible things everyday. We are becoming immune to it.
I'll tell you how I think this country will go down, it will be because of balkanization. We are being turned into Yugoslavia as we speak. We have liberals who say every race should be treated seperately, that we should have all of these cuckoo holidays, and yet ignore the holidays that a majority believe in. We have liberals who are saying that certain races should be treated differently. They want the streetsigns and ballots and textooks to be in a zillion different languages. In other words, we have people who want to split this country apart.
The white and black racists who want the country divided into various territories for various races are going to get their wish, only it's not going to be through their actions, it'll be through the actions of politicians and school boards.