[JohnGalt]

I didn't take you for a conservative anyway so your comments merely strength my resolve.

Hint: its the owners of the WTC who were prevented by the federalis from having proper defense tools, be it anti-aircraft missiles or guns.

It was the state that convinced its people to give up a personal responsibility, protection of the self, that infected the culture which caused good Americans to hope it 'was just a hijacking' as they were led like sheeps to the slaughter.

Go on apologizing for the state and believing its a good thing its someone else's kid taking a bullet in Iraq.

Sheep.

[BigWaveBetty]

If the WTC had anti-aircraft missiles or guns and had been able to actually shoot those two planes down, what would have happened? Hint: People still would have died. Our economy still would have been hurt.

Too bad you weren't on one of the two WTC missiles so you could have convinced all your fellow passengers that what was happening was actually a terrorist attack.

Sheep dip.

[pgyanke]

Give it up, John. We have a right to be secure in our own homes and to defend them ourselves, yes. However, when it comes to the defense of the nation, that is one of the limited, legitimate roles for our national government.

President Bush has planted a terrorist lightning rod (or bug lamp, if you like) in Iraq and it's attracting terrorists from across the globe. While the left continues to say that the war in Iraq is distracting from our efforts in the war on terror, the reality is the war in Iraq has completely distracted the terrorists from their war on us.

As the author stated above, it's the role of the military to protect us as a nation. They don't do that in garrison, they do that in combat. Rather than waiting for the terrorists to strike here where we have a free society with a soft underbelly, we've forced them to focus their efforts on the tip of the spear.

It is a strategically brilliant strategy.