Clinton was a weak woman and presided over a feminization of the US and its defence. To Islamic terrorists this type of behavior is an invitation to get beat up.
We must change our demeanor and stand up like men in the defense of our country. No excuses. No appologies. No sympathy to our enemies. No worring about the consequences, if we do the right thing. It seems this is happening. Keep it up.
mcollins
Clinton fiddled while Rome burned.
-- a melieu where land was cheap and labor was dear
-- initial religious differences sufficient to have forced many of the founding colonists to emmigrate from England
-- American isolation from the English Civil War and,
-- the fact that England had by then changed to Great Britain.
The transparent object of Daddy Warbucks East is to inspire a war--one which might merit the monicker WWIII--as a path to glory. Americans vicerally understand that to war with any nation unnecessarily is folly; we have visceral contempt for the very concept of glory thus purchased. Moslems have a different culture. We must not ignore the possibility that they may differ in that respect.
The fact that not all Americans are religious follows from the cultural understanding of the various founders and Americans' deliberate choice to place their ability to cooperate among themselves above any dogma. Even those Americans who deny the existence of God vicerally reject earthly malevalence as a guiding principle.
That the American ideal of cooperation did not initially extend to the African slaves in the founders' midst is often remarked. But the fact is that Americans understand that even to begin to erase that exception--that anomaly still being turned into excrement and rejected by the American society--cost proportionately more treasure and absolutely more blood than any other struggle we have undertaken as a nation. We have no desire to move backward; we don't know how to do it.
And now we see examples, in these "Islamic heroes", of what Americans can see in no other way than as mockers of the idea of cooperation which is actually a founding ideal of our nation. The drawing together of American political factions is the least surprising result, followed closely by an increase in (non-Islamic) religious sentiment, and by the solicitious reaction of our president toward the possibility of persecution of American Moslems. That last reaction is due to the fact that the criminal conspiracy transparently targets the honor of that group, both here and in the Middle East.
Americans only recognize courage as the overcoming of fear in time of unsought crisis; they can at no sanely counted cost be forced to honor suicidal instant death in that same way. Any Moslem does well to understand the American culture enough to enable them to project the likely cost and unpromising benefits of letting such "heroes" control them.