I'm no socialist, you however, need to wake up to the realities of today's world.
I don't know if you were too busy counting your money and missed it, but the targets of the attacks attacks on 9/11 were far from being symbolic, or random sites. The attacks brought our economy to its knees, they were designed to do so.
They crippled our airline industry, our financial industry, our hospitality industry. They forced us to spend billions of unbudgeted dollars in an attempt to achieve the impossible...secure a free nation from terrorist attacks.
Meanwhile, the people who perpetrated these attacks are seen as national heroes in underdeveloped counties because they spend money building schools and hospitals for the poor.
It's a money war, and the ChiCom are entering that war soon, if they haven't already, at a different level.
Go ahead and spend your energies trying to get a conservative dog catcher elected in your home town, the rest of us will do the heavy lifting for the nation.
If that is the case then why is the Bush admin granting special trade realtionships with the Chinese?
Bush Hails China's Entry Into WTO (11/11/01)
U.S. President George W. Bush welcomed China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on November 11, saying the move will lead to global economic growth.
The U.S. president also welcomed the accession of Taiwan, a Chinese province, to the WTO.
"The United States stands ready to work constructively with both economies to assist them in meeting the challenges of implementation," Bush said in a statement in New York.
"We also look forward to the great benefits we know that greater trade will bring to all our peoples," he said in the statement. (Xinhua)
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/20714.html