No more 'War on terror'

Re: No more \'War on terror\'

Wilt! Question? I had better do the disclaimer first!!
I am completely aware that this country is not perfect or above reproach. I AM also aware that we have done "some things" that are not pure and wonderful in order to press our own agenda.
Have we been a force for good in the world?
Is there another country that values personal freedoms and liberty more than us? EVER?
Have we been a force for good in the World? WWII ? Or was there some evil conspiracy that you'll throw out like "our govt wanted to be dragged in ,or we new we would be bombed at pearl harbor or some stupid crap like that?
Ya know, just like 9/11, we new right Wilt? it was an inside job huh? go ahead and Quote some liberal blog or unfounded swill. SORRY, I digress!
Is there a country on the planet right now that spends more money than we do on humanitarian aid?
I do not say its ok to turn a blind I to wrongs!!! But it is equally ignorant to turn one to the Good!!!
You need a little yin to your yang DUDE!
And for God sake stay away from the crack........particularly the bears crack!!
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Re: No more \'War on terror\'

9/11 wasn't an inside job. But it's painful to realize the intel community was adept at, had information about, and followed the movements of at least two of the hijackers and institutional/political incompetence let them slip away to do the deed. On the same note, I'm very familiar with actions abroad that create the hate someone would use for fodder to retaliate in any means possible, believe me.

America has done volumes of good, and several times is responsible for greatness. Selected times however, expansion and destiny often allowed our prosperity built on bloodshed and dominion. Ask any Cherokee or Lakota or Seminole.

If you remember the small towns and memories of the past...the men who designed the B-17's, built the Golden Gate Bridge, tunnelled the Northern Pacific thru to the coast under the Rockies had little more than 8th grade educations and a number 2 lead pencil and the corner hardware store was run by the grandson of the man who built it, as was the barbershop, grocery store, and lumberyard. It was a time of greatness, compassionate community, and prospects for a future filled with promise. Best cars, roads, and labor-saving devices on earth. For a time.

Then greed set in, bottom-lines were quarterly returns and profits-at-any-cost. Regulation was the direct result of early monopolistic domination, Ludlow, Colorado (1914) saw private armies kill innocent families, all just wanting promises fullfilled. The powerful worked to reverse the limits of prohibition and campaign promises were then (Hoover) what Reagan today allowed a return of the richest allowed to any and all and the leftovers will trickle-down...hopefully. WalMArt is the largest corporation in the world, and yesterday I talked to a friend who was layed-off not for performance, but three days away from recieving benefits, replaced by a highschool drop-out. The decision came from Bentonville, Arkansas, not the store manager...who didn't even know until the morning fax came in.

When the call for helping Europe and the Pacific expansions of aggression, we were there and knew what was at stake. We knew what America was about, cubscouts helped and everyone, even the powerful stepped up.

Imagry of the past was tapped to make-believe the current is what was - save America the great by fighting for freedom abroad. Sorry, our freedoms aren't what they were. Enlisting and being a soldier isn't liberating Dachau or overtaking Iwo Jima and making sure grandson's corner store is protected from invaders because it isn't, the invasion came from within. My friend fired from WalMArt is one class A American, wounded during Tet in '68 and dedicated worker in spite of four fake joints, nine years punching a clock because his tire dealership was usurped by a Mega-box imported crap dealer, not just undercutting the local merchants, but destroying American business all throughout our land. The buck's bottom line.

Fight and die on foreign soil to protect WalMart's or Exxon's business interests? We're sure not spreading democracy and democracy is sure what we don't have here, as of yet. Worse than pouring salt on a gashing wound, the elite now have shown that they fail at their designated preferred business practices, loose it all in the quest for total control, and it's we the American people who must rescue them so they can do it all over again.

There's no responsibility anymore, why would someone elect to die to protect that? We need to start new, start over, and no philosophies of the past can work this out except the founding documents, what one time made us great and by omission and select interests group's diverse interpretaions(religion and money), made us fail.

I know you love America, don't get me wrong. But I'm skeptical about who's interests mean what, especially knowing the falsehoods presented by special interests to insure they can take all our shares of a nation away from everyone, who all have a vested part in making it the country it was. Exxon/Mobil isn't American, they are global and their bottom-line isn't Pop's corner store or healthcare that's reasonable for all or how well my son gets an education beyond what I can provide. I've been political in the past because I had to - lies about chemical weaponry and promises broken, experience in foreign policy that would never make the evening news. I know when lies crop-up and reasons being and America just woke-up to the facts of the past and current and it effects a failure of universal proportion. I for one will not distract because of the blame game on ethnics, religious rights, or labels like "liberal", all busswords that are too effective to divide us from the real scourge: profits at all costs. Is Abortion and the Lord's prayer really more important than a 92-year old American freezing to death in Mich. after his electricity was cutoff, or school kids in Kandahar killed because there was one "militant" somewhere in the area? Who defines "militant" anyway? Was Crazy Horse a terrorist or was Custer one?
 
Re: No more \'War on terror\'

Wow!! for the first time I think ever!! I agree with a lot of what you are saying ! you have struck some common ground with me!! It will take more time than i am afforded at present to respond in kind however!
I will simply say this...I think the Idea of America that you lay out is what I am willing to fight for I am nothing more than a hopeless romantic!!! I will log on later to fill in the gaps!
 
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