There will be many more of them after the next successful major attack, which I fear will occur this year (and hope is prevented!).
We still aren't taking this seriously. For an example proving this, just look at the written Federal guidelines for airport security screeners, which explicitly state that national/religious (Middle Eastern / Muslim) profiling is not allowed. This wastes precious security resources strip-searching 5th-generation American grandmothers from Des Moines.
This is what bothers me most. When we continue to avoid using the word "terrorist" where it so obviously applies, when we let someone with explosives residue on his person just walk away from the airport, when we refuse to confront the truth of who the enemy is, we're really not taking this very seriously. We're still at the Cotillion, wearing white gloves and being oh, so politically correct and mannerly--and all the while, the other guests plot a bloody end to the dance.
I agree, but I have to add, I think we initially took it seriously.
Something very wrong has happened to our culture; Americans no longer have the ability to retain memories of significant events gone by.
Most are unable to filter out the incessant bombardment of trash that’s flung at us on a daily basis. We're distracted moment by moment, hour by hour.
We’ve been overfed, placed under a shade tree and had a nose ring inserted....
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