There's a poll out showing that Americans are
scared:
The nation is on edge in the wake of brutal beheadings of journalists by Islamic extremists — with more Americans saying the United States is less safe now than at any point since 9/11, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll shows.
You know what that poll shows, Americans? It shows that the terrorists won. You are giving them everything they wanted. You are terrorized.
Look, I've said it before and I still believe every word. ISIS represents no threat to the United States. None.
Are there terrorists in this world who would like to give us a bloody nose? Absolutely. You know what? You've already surrendered an astounding amount of your personal privacy in the name of enabling agencies to reduce that threat. Stop being so eager to bend over and give the little that remains. You're already going through ridiculous rituals at airports and government offices and museums and bus stations and football stadiums and probably at the local Gymboree, all designed to give you the illusion of safety at an immense cost in both time and money. You've already given up everything from the privacy of your phone calls and emails to the ability to take some shampoo on the road. Don't get out the checkbook to buy more nonsense.
And hey, you've already left more Americans on the battlefield created by our shaking-in-our-boots cowardice than any terrorists might have hoped. You've already built a momument to our fear that's measured in a mound of bodies on both sides that would dwarf the Great Pyramid. Stop making our service people, and innocents on the ground, sacrifices to your ill-defined "they're out to get me"-itis.
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You people have all been in the internet for awhile now. Haven't you learned the first lesson? Don't feed the trolls. That's what a terrorist is at heart, an asshole playing you for a reaction. Someone who gets off, not on the things he is doing, but on seeing how badly those things upset you. And what does a troll do when you react? Something worse.
So why are you in such a hurry to give them exactly what they want? Beating your chests and threatening to spend a billion-trillion-zillion dollars? That's not scaring terrorists. That's empowering them by treating them like a much more serious threat than they actually represent. Threatening to drop more Americans right there where they can be killed by the thousands? Please. You're making them drool.
Understand, they don't care if they lose on the battlefield. Winning the battle means nothing. Khe Sahn was a battlefield victory. Hell, every battle of the Iraq invasion was a victory. How'd that work out for you? Going to war in this situation only shows that you've surrendered the only thing that is an actual weapon against terrorists: reason.
Please, people, root through your old VHS tapes and unearth your copy of Wargames. Now, fast forward to the end where you can hear the wisdom of a computer with the brain power of an old Atari cartridge: the only winning move, is not to play. Let the assholes feed on each other for a change.
You want to go over to Iraq and rescue people who are endangered by ISIS? Absolutely. I'm right there with you. In fact, I'm serious about that. Call me. I'll pay for that. I'll support that. I'll go. The United States really needs to stop preaching to other countries about accepting refugees and take in more of the world's mistreated and displaced, including the ones right on our doorstep.
But you think that engaging in more military conflict is going to make things better? Unlike the last time. Or the time before that. Or the time before that ... no. Stop it.
The only threat to America is the threat being generated by Americans.
I'd very much like to think that the president will address the nation with the immortal phrase, "grow up." But no, that's not going to happen. Instead, we're going to act because, God help us all, the people demand action. The media demands action. And of of course Congress needs action so it knows what it's against.
Just a little thought: did anyone bother to ask the families of those journalists who were used as propaganda tools by the terrorists in order to generate just this reaction, if they think this is what either of those journalists would have wanted? If the families feel this is an appropriate memorial to the genuinely brave men who were lost?
Ah, hell. You know, I started posting on this site in 2003. And here it is again ...
