Sadly what you lefties fail to understamd is 9/11 changed everything in this country........With the exception of Pearl Harbor we have never been hit like that and now a hit on the mainland.
I find it funny how PNAC wrote that they NEEDED a 'new pearl harbour' to accomplish their objectives worldwide... so without veering the discussion any further, I'll just point out that I take issue with that statement. The only thing that 'changed' after 9-11 is how clear it's become that 'american supremacy' will bowl over and turn their backs on the ideals that made this country truly great.
We always had the security of the oceans around us......that is gone now........we are very vulnerable......
And so the nation is reduced to the level of an infant crying to his parents cause one of the people he's been bullying around punched back and gave him a bloody nose.
I'm not trying to make light of the people that died, but to say 'we need to give up our freedom to protect our freedom.' Is not only the type of statement that you'd see in an Orwellian novel, it's a complete fallacy to think that it can be accomplished.
When the founding fathers made the constitution the never factored in a situation like this........
That's completely false. Which of the founding fathers was it that said, 'those that would trade freedom for security, will get neither and lose both.'
No one myself included wants to lose any rights but our safety should be paramount and if it causes us to have a little discomfort or delay at the airport so be it...........
The world is NOT a safe place, no matter how you slice it, even if you have millitary police standing on every street corner, then what are you to do when someone decides to abuse that power?
Rights are great but they are not worth a crap if you are dead.........
What an ego-centric, self-centered view you have. Had you considered that giving up those rights so that YOU can feel safe, is dooming your children to deal with the consequences when that power inevitably gets abused.
Now I hear the lefties in this thread so they would rather be dead then lose a right.....That is very easy to say sitting behind your monitor typing on your keyboard at home.......
Then, what is worth dying for? Seriously.
Let the same people have a gun pointed at their head having to make a decision to lose a right or your life they would be the first to cry uncle hear and give up the right rather then die.........
That may be true... but then there are people that having the gun pointed to their head with the option 'kneel or die', who would grab the gun and help them pull the trigger.
You won't believe this, but I'll say it anyway... a few years back, I was walking with my girlfriend at the time when three guys jumped up and demanded money... I told my girlfriend to run, while I fought them off as best I could. I spent almost a week in the hospital recovering, but my girlfriend got away safely... I'm just saying this to say, that there are ideas and ideals like honor and freedom that trump your own life as an individual. If you don't have the strength of character to fight for these things, what's the point of being alive when you're just a shell of what it means to be human.
It better to be alive, trust me..........I might have been a little redundent in this post...sorry about that.......
Look, I don't WANT to die. I don't go around looking for fights. If anything, I'll be one of the first to talk my way out of a fight. However, there is a line, and once that line is crossed... it's no longer an OPTION, it's a matter of doing what is RIGHT.
And when Bush went around saying 'the terrorists hate us because of our freedoms' (aside from the MANY arguments I could make), for us to be giving UP THOSE FREEDOMS is conceding victory to the terrorists (in spite of the fallacy that a terrorist is born of jealousy).
