I'm afraid it is going to take a lot more than the events of 9/11.
The situation is clear. For reasons unfathomable to me (although I am sure they involve money) our government is going to sacrifice many more thousands of us before it gains the courage to clamp down on the stinking terrs in our midst.
I have taken skepticism to new and untold heights. I don't even think deportation, and lie detector tests of M.E. questionables will take place if a suit case nuke is smuggled into the superbowl killing 100,000. I have no faith in our leadership and not much in the general population ... because it's only a few that seem to even want to survive. How else can the fact that there is no clamour for deportation be explained?
I wouldn't want to bet against you on that. Although money may be a factor in our government's inability to halt the waves of Middle Eastern immigration I think political correctness is the greater reason. Our bureaucrats are more afraid of offending Muslims than they are about the safety and security of its citizens. Only when the sheeple rise up and demand that we start sending these people home and make it an election issue will the politicos do anything about it. Reality on this front is sad.
This should come as no surprise, since "government" has been doing it for 50 years: sacrifing American lives for political or diplomatic maneuvering. A horrible use of war, and a cynical form of "leadership".
So long as "soldiers" and conscripts were the victims it fueled the selective blindness. Now that the victims are citizens in-country, a watershed change is about to take place, for we can not take it as a country and survive.
War must be uncompromising and relentless, and the goal is to win unconditional or to withdraw.
No more refuges in North Korea, No more avoiding Haiphong Harbors and Hanois, no more dropping food in between bombings to prove we are "good and compassionate" (to whom for God's sake).
Sooner or later we must make the choice. Are we in it to survive? or to win a "popularity" contest?
If is us against the world, I say bring the world on and settle it once and for all.
Pax Americana? I think the time is past to fear labels.
Now that the war has come home, let's embrace it to win, not to prolong it, or to attempt to push its resolution onto our children and grandchildren; For the war is real.
It's only a question of how it will take to us accept it and deal with it.