Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
3/21/13
9/28/10
Quote of the Day: Noam Chomsky
End of American invulnerability...
"What the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 could not do, what nearly half a century of cold war could not do, the events of September 11 accomplished. The destruction of the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in rural Pennsylvania have combined to bring an era of trust in invulnerability to an end."
Noam Chomsky
9-11 2001
"What the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 could not do, what nearly half a century of cold war could not do, the events of September 11 accomplished. The destruction of the World Trade Center, the attack on the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in rural Pennsylvania have combined to bring an era of trust in invulnerability to an end."
Noam Chomsky
9-11 2001
We Bought It
Therefore we own it...
and if not paid off, still also owe it
It strikes me as indicative of how the American character has changed the last 30 years or so when after the attacks of 09-11-01, we listened to "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning" for a few weeks, then carried on with our daily lives as President George W. Bush urged. There was very little reflection on the monumental historical event that had just happened. Contrary to popular belief, Bush did not tell us to "go shopping," as has been mythically repeated.
We did that all on our own.
...and wow, we sure went on a binge of a shopping spree.
Even if he did say it, when did we become such followers as to do exactly what our leaders say without thinking or questioning? That's antithetical to American thinking. No, we own our buyer's remorse, our leaders don't.
and if not paid off, still also owe it
It strikes me as indicative of how the American character has changed the last 30 years or so when after the attacks of 09-11-01, we listened to "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning" for a few weeks, then carried on with our daily lives as President George W. Bush urged. There was very little reflection on the monumental historical event that had just happened. Contrary to popular belief, Bush did not tell us to "go shopping," as has been mythically repeated.
We did that all on our own.
...and wow, we sure went on a binge of a shopping spree.
Even if he did say it, when did we become such followers as to do exactly what our leaders say without thinking or questioning? That's antithetical to American thinking. No, we own our buyer's remorse, our leaders don't.
7/13/10
Hillary Clinton's Hips
Are looking better all the time in the rear view mirror...
John McCain has been my Congressman and Senator since 1982 and I never have trusted him. He's always fallen into that awful category of "the lesser of two evils" which happens too often in politics; rather like Bush vs. Kerry. I have no idea what shape we would be in if McCain had won the 2008 Presidential election. It's a mind-numbing thought but not nearly as as anesthetizing as thinking about who we have now as President, a man clearly more interested in superficial image than deep thinking and in way over his head.
The absurdity of the White House insisting on "detaching the word Islam from any statement regarding terrorism," for the sake of college-style political correctness, causing military and intelligence personnel to carefully parse their words, is the latest oddity.
Reference: "Obama at odd with Patraeus doctrine on 'Islam'" 07-11-10 The Washington Times
Let's get real...the largest terrorist threat to the US is from the Islamic world. The inanity of "detaching any reference to Islam when referring to terrorists" is enough to cause even non-conspiracist me to wonder what Obama's allegiances truly are.
Hindsight is 20/20. I can't say I trust Hillary Clinton all that much but what the heck...I don't trust Obama at all. Not on one issue for one second. I'm thinking McCain would've been a terrible President and we probably would have been better off with Hillary Clinton.
I mean, how much worse could it be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQadAAlK9c4
John McCain has been my Congressman and Senator since 1982 and I never have trusted him. He's always fallen into that awful category of "the lesser of two evils" which happens too often in politics; rather like Bush vs. Kerry. I have no idea what shape we would be in if McCain had won the 2008 Presidential election. It's a mind-numbing thought but not nearly as as anesthetizing as thinking about who we have now as President, a man clearly more interested in superficial image than deep thinking and in way over his head.
The absurdity of the White House insisting on "detaching the word Islam from any statement regarding terrorism," for the sake of college-style political correctness, causing military and intelligence personnel to carefully parse their words, is the latest oddity.
Reference: "Obama at odd with Patraeus doctrine on 'Islam'" 07-11-10 The Washington Times
Let's get real...the largest terrorist threat to the US is from the Islamic world. The inanity of "detaching any reference to Islam when referring to terrorists" is enough to cause even non-conspiracist me to wonder what Obama's allegiances truly are.
Hindsight is 20/20. I can't say I trust Hillary Clinton all that much but what the heck...I don't trust Obama at all. Not on one issue for one second. I'm thinking McCain would've been a terrible President and we probably would have been better off with Hillary Clinton.
I mean, how much worse could it be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQadAAlK9c4
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