THE WAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST

7/23/2002 | Texasforever

[sinkspur]

You idiot party folk look more and more like clintonistas every day. Too bad you can't see it.

Fred, you libertarians, with your chicken little, sky-is-falling, mentality are like broken records.

Those of us who follow you know what you're going to say before you say it.

[Fred Mertz]

Don't tell anyone spinky, but I'm a card carrying Republican.

[Texasforever]

In any case, setting that aside, how does this administration keep people focused short of another Reichstag fire?

I don't think it can. There are, even now, people that will tell Reichstag fire if another attack is made. There are those that will yell "wag the dog" if and when we invade Iraq. The country has lost what focus it ever had and now it is back to politics, conspiracies and Oprah.

[AmishDude]

Yeah. The libertarians can be counted on to gripe and bitch, like the kid with a sack of marbles who's constantly counting them, thinking somebody took one when they weren't looking.

I think the more apt metaphor would be . . . strawberries.

[gunshy]

Bet you money that Bush will have a renewed effort for the military to take on those bad terrorists somewhere around the first of October.

[Texasforever]

Bet you money that Bush will have a renewed effort for the military to take on those bad terrorists somewhere around the first of October.

Wag the Dog?

[gunshy]

Who are we at war with?

[terilyn]

I fear political correctness and complacency from our own citizens and politicians almost more than the terrorists. At least they are real and we can fight back.

I got teary reading your post. Very well done. Thank you.

[general_re]

No offense, but I hope you're wrong. ;)

After all, if you're right, it's really just a matter of time before someone reaches out to smack us again...

[Texasforever]

What do you think will happen?

[Mo1]

After all, if you're right, it's really just a matter of time before someone reaches out to smack us again...

It's not like it will be the first time ..

[gunshy]

Yeah, why not. The american sheeple will fall for anything and it may get a few pubbies re-elected. Remember, the ends justifies the means.

[general_re]

We'll get fat and sassy again, and someone out there will notice. We'll bitch about how long it takes to get to get on an airplane, or how long it takes to cross the border, and gradually we'll return to how things used to be, to make everyone happy.

And if al Qaeda is gone, there's certainly no shortage of other folks out there who wish us ill, and now they've seen that we can be hit, and we can be hurt. They'll have a convenient template for how to hit us, left over from Osama, and we'll be sitting ducks again because we're too damn shortsighted to put up with even the minor inconveniences of having our bags searched before getting on a plane. And someone will see that and take advantage of it.

[Texasforever]

That's pretty much how I see it also.

[Texasforever]

Yeah, why not. The american sheeple will fall for anything and it may get a few pubbies re-elected. Remember, the ends justifies the means.

So in your mind anything that happens between now and the elections will be staged to elect "pubbies"?

[Starwind]

You summarized and conveyed your thoughts well.

I personally believe that most americans in fly-over country have neither forsaken the administration nor forgotten about the enemy and why/where we fight.

I do belive the media however conveys the opposite. If you belive the media is an accurate guage of America, your fears would be well founded, but again most 'folk' read the same reports you do and scratch their heads wondering why has everyone else given up? Am I the only one who cares? There is a large untapped consensus to fight this thing thru and rid ourselves of a menace.

That said, we do live in interesting times and there is much to contend for the common man and the medias attention. Weapons of mass distraction as it where. Stock market, banking stability, corporate scandals, church scandals, child molestation, world famine, etc.

Normally a war would get a lot more attention, but there is only so much attention to go around.

[Mo1]

I would truly hate to be in the shoes of this or any other president given public’s loss of urgency in the War on Terror

You know .. I don't think the public has lost it's urgency

I think most folks just trust this President to take care of it and to protect them

There will always be folks out there that don't have a clue as to what is going on .. but I think in general .. most trust this President

And if we are attacked again .. that is if history is any indicator .. they will hit us again .. I believe folks will continue to stand by this President and the War

BTW .. nice thread .. there is a lot to think about here

[Mo1]

Well I can't disagree with that post

[Starwind]

Should add, the administration shoots itself in the foot when it frisks blue haired old ladies in airports, can't seem to police the borders, and can't seem to investigate a terrorist's PC until they blow up the WTC, or investigate who was behind OKC.

Many 'folk', myself included, would be more comfortable with the added security machinery if we saw the existing machinery being fully utilized.

[Ahban]

No. I only agree that I am more afraid of a loss of civil liberties and constitutional protections from our own "well meaning" government than I am of whatever is left of Al Quida.

If we are at war, Congress should declare war, that war any "emergency measures" can end when the war does. This business of undeclared war with defacto permanent new police powers worries me.