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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Two catch phrases today in pundits' discussion of the financial markets crisis:"Americans on both sides of the aisle are all really angry, but we don't know what we're angry about."
"Why aren't we coming together over this like we did over 9/11."
I am deeply suspicious that fascist little twits in the U.S. intelligence community know about an impending attack on the United States, possibly a nuclear attack on one or more of our cities.
It would unite public opinion and focus our simmering rage on foreign countries so we can't see the wolves in our own backyard.
It would sell more and more and more contracts for high-end defense facilities, weapons, aircraft and ships.
It would get people to vote for McCain. I fear he is the "Manchurian Candidate." His trigger-happy reaction would serve the interests of China in the middle east better than Obama's, and if he dies in office, Palin would be easy for her oil and defense industry "handlers" to push around.
I am deeply sad for the soul of America. We can only find it again if we are courageous and speak out against the traditionally held beliefs about authority. In the beginning, Americans were very good at that. What happened? Why did we chicken out?
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