A real man stands firm and defends his land, family and country. He does not make excuses for those who would destroy what he is, by virtue of his manhood, called to defend. What you call a man I see as someone who is defeated and controlled by, and co-dependent with our enemies. I am sorry to see so many warped minds excusing terrorism.
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I agree that we must act, its like what my boss' 12 year old observed, that if I hit you and you don't hit back, I'll keep on hitting you if you do not give me a cue to stop.
BUT, think about it, this is like a set up. They WANT us to retaliate, they are DARING us to retaliate. They are looking for that EXCUSE to use the big stuff against us (low yield nukes) to really do some damage.
Mindless revenge antics will only get more Americans killed!!! Ask yourself this, are you willing to sacrifice another million or so American lives because you want to appease your hard-on for revenge now? America has to do this right and not go around blowing things up because it can. Think hard and think smart...
You don't even see the irony of your own response, do you? Chamberlain was un-manned precisely because he was bound by the contradictions of the EMPIRE he was defending. A lean, mean Republic is capable of understanding it's interests and defending them by any means necessary, when the time comes. An EMPIRE, on the other hand loses sight of the cultural roots that gives meaning to human society and cannot move quickly enough to meet the blow that comes from enemies.
We were founded as a REPUBLIC. We are suffering the INEVITABLE blows visited upon EMPIRES. Think about "impotence" when you watch the replays of the WTC buldings slowly collapsing and sinking into rubble....