The US is not at war. We're not. Stop pretending. We invaded and occupied a sovereign nation (in reality, a disobedient client state) , and are currently getting our asses handed to us by guerrillas. Congress did not declare war. The American People (I hate that term) are not doing any kind of war-time sacrifices: no fuel rations, no war bonds, no draft, no rolling blackouts to conserve energy, no nothing. The US is not at war. We may be in a fight, but we are not at War. Please, stop thinking we are.There is no such thing as the War On Terror. That's a marketing term to get you to accept an expansion of government power and the intrusions it brings. We are no more at war on Terror than we are on Drugs, Poverty, or any of the other ills affecting us a people. We are no more likely to get attacked by a terrorist today than we were in 1988. The tactics being used in the War On Terror (eavesdropping of citizens, secret prisons and interrogations, no-fly lists, gag orders on the investigation of government officials, secret police powers granted to our law enforcement agencies, etc) are no more likely to prevent a terrorist attack than anything else they did before 9/11. Anyone you hear using the term "War on Terror" or "in a post-9/11 world" to justify their non-kosher activities is trying to sell you something, and it's most likely not going to be good for you. There is no war on terror. There is only a war on you.
Terrorists are not crazed madmen bent on destroying the West. Well, mostly not, there might be a few. Remember that Terrorism is a reactionary tactic. Terrorism (or as the CIA calls it when the US does it, Low Intensity Conflict) is an antagonistic military response that is not meant to win or lose a conflict, but to inflame the passions on either side in order to mobilize support for a cause. That said, the "terrorists" that want to attack the US are doing so for very good reasons; namely that the US supports murderous regimes around the world that oppress their own people, the US forces it's economy, culture, religion, and value systems on the world at large regardless of the opinions of the local populace, and the US pursuit of profit over people has led to the deaths (directly and indirectly) of hundreds of millions of people in the last 50 years.
Terrorists don't hate us because we love freedom. Terrorists don't hate us because we're secular. Terrorists hate us because we've caused them nothing but grief for the last half century. I heard payback's a muthaf***in' ni**a.
I'm expecting a knock on my door any day now. See you in Gitmo, citizen.
