This is an interesting take on the fecklessness of our elected officials....



The surreal debate about Iraq is a thin veil covering the real political preoccupation of our time - the competition to assign blame for the next terrorist attack to somebody else. Democrats are setting themselves up to argue that the Republican administration is at fault because it hasn't been diligent enough about homeland security and because it has fanned the flames of Islamofascism by fighting in Iraq. Republicans are setting themselves up to argue that Democrats are at fault for refusing to take militant Islam seriously and working to frustrate our every effort to confront it.

Who wins this cat fight? Probably nobody.

The next terrorist attack should give us a relatively lucid moment. It will strike us like a bolt of lightening and illuminate the geopolitical landscape. Even without leadership the American people might see Iraq in context, if only for a moment They may suddenly see that our entire political class has been indulging itself in meaningless partisan disputes when it should have been teaching our Arab and Persian enemies a bitter lesson about the consequences of messing with the eagle.

It isn't a forgone conclusion that any attack, no matter how savage, would make most Americans understand that we are fighting for our lives and doing so blindfolded with our hands in our pockets. Many, perhaps most, of us would react to another assault by redoubling their already heroic efforts to ignore unpleasant realities. But it is also possible that most of us might suddenly see just how feckless and irresponsible America's politicians have been since 9/11.
If we wake up one morning to find that one of our great cities is a smoking ruin or that our children are dying by the million from some mysterious disease, the odds are that America's contempt for its leaders of both parties will know no bounds.

What then?

Something similar happened to Britain at the outset of World War II when the people woke up to discover that their leaders had blundered into a war which they were utterly unprepared to fight. Most of Britain's leaders were thoroughly discredited by the events leading up to the war, but there was one important exception. Winston Churchill had spent a decade warning that war was coming and urging his country to head it off or, failing that, to be ready. When war came, he was the logical person to lead the government.

Where is our Churchill?

complete essay
American Thinker: Will the Next Attack Get Our Attention?

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That is assuming that there will be a next attack.

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that!I'm hoping it's in Vegas, there are a couple of people here that deserve to die, Wait I forgot, I live here also, maybe not such a good idea! I believe there will be attacks as long as we rape and pillage foriegn lands for their resourses, and keep bases in Muslim lands. It only takes 10-20 crazy assholes to come up with a plan and I'm pretty sure there are more than That!

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You guys are certainly entitled to your glibness, it is illustrative of chasm between our viewpoints.

The question foremost in my mind is simply; what if you guys are wrong?

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If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
~ Frank Zappa ~

Liberty means responsibility, that is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw~

Well I suppose there will be an attack. We have survived attacks before and we will survive one again unless we unleash the crazies we have in power now, they would like to start armageddon, I think Bush sees that as his divine obligation. The thing I'm about is don't sweat the small shit, an attack, a few hundred people die, we go after the crazies, Just don't let the assholes in power now overdo the response, like lets nuke them back to the stone age. There are other players in the nuke program and a few of them are not exactly our friends!

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