Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - 9/11Americans are still furious about the attacks on our soil and still feel lost and hopeless for the people who died and their families. We wanted something done about it. The U.S. had to go into Afghanistan — but lost track of its original objective, because the President treats it more like a psy-ops mind game and cultural suppression than a criminal investigation of mass murder, creating as much resentment as gratitude among the common Afghani people.
There are also significant questions of conflict of interest since the inevitable outcome of the strategically useless attack was that Afghanistan would be invaded, Bush's oil friends the Saudis will eventually profit, and China will have a stable energy source for its emerging market.
The anger of the American people was then directed by the President into Iraq. But now it seems like Iraq didn't have much to do with 9/11, and Saddam would have been easily crushed at any time if he made direct threatening moves. Although the American people are capable of taking on their new responsibility in Iraq and will live up to that responsibility, many Americans feel upset that a lot more innocent people have died because of the chaos we unleashed in Iraq than Americans who died on 9/11.
It seems the President has lit a fire under our feet, and we can't find any water to put it out. The water is love, and we need to remember: Love is the reason why we were angry. Love is the only thing that will stop the violence.
Even though our civil liberties and our state of freedom do create security vulnerabilities, we are not willing to give them up, because Americans are risk-takers who believe in themselves and their values and face their fears. We will not be bullied into submission by those who want a fascist government in the United States.
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The world is a complex place and requires complex thinking. Thinking in simple terms is likely to get us attacked again.It's all too easy to buy the official line, that "towel heads hate us because we're free," or that Osama Bin Laden believes in divine kingship and wants to rule the world.
What would happen, if the "October Surprise" this year is that Bin Laden gets off another attack inside the United States? We haven't found him in Pakistan. Maybe he is right here under our noses.
If he does bomb Hollywood, when the national anthem starts playing on CNN and the tears start to pour out, would you fall in line and give up all your rights, and assent to the wholesale slaughter of the Muslim world as a reprisal?
Or, would you wake up and wonder about the people who seek to profit from the chaos of a global world war? They would make trillions of dollars, the draft would be reinstated, and we would be made slaves of death.
When they come to brand you with the mark of the beast, take the beheading option. I hear it's the better choice.
Descent Into Chaos sounds like a good book on how the idiotic neocon board room mentality was manipulated to serve interests other than our own.
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