[PerConPat]

...but I think Bush bears most of the blame for that...After 9/11, this nation was united. We would have worked together to hunt the terrorists down and defeat them. We would have pulled our weight, sacrificed, done what was asked of us. We only needed a leader to ask.

I wrote the President in Feb. 2002 encouraging him to put the country onto a war footing. Preparations for a military draft, equipment build up etc. were mentioned. I was very disappointed at the failure of this nation to at least send the message, while the iron was hot, to the world that America would again go on patrol.

Looking back, however, I now believe that the country was, and still is, much too weak to deal with the threat. IMHO, sadly, only a massive strike against the homeland will change this. I don't recall any politician of national stature beating the drum for mobilization after 911.

Decades of inattention to what was and is being taught in public schools and the distractions of debt based consumption have taken their toll. We are in the grasp of globalists, and it remains an open question as to whether Islamo-fascism will be attended to before we pay a horrendous price in our own backyard. It was and is probably beyond any POTUS.

[highball]

Looking back, however, I now believe that the country was, and still is, much too weak to deal with the threat.

That's a failure of leadership. The moment was there, but passed on by. It's far too late now.

We are in the grasp of globalists

and that's the problem right there....