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Originally Posted by GUWonder
(Post 16321953)
If OBL were not confirmed to be incapacitated, he'd be out there producing yet another message -- one with proof of timing -- to thumb his nose at the world. Fortunately, that won't be happening anytime in anyone's lifetime from this month forward.
Link Apparently not. Bin Laden, according to Gartenstein-Ross, had a strategy that we never bothered to understand, and thus that we never bothered to defend against. What he really wanted to do — and, more to the point, what he thought he could do — was bankrupt the United States of America. After all, he’d done the bankrupt-a-superpower thing before. And though it didn’t quite work out this time, it worked a lot better than most of us, in this exultant moment, are willing to admit. ................ Add in the build-up in homeland security spending since 9/11 and you’re looking at yet another trillion. ............... Then there’s the post-9/11 slowdown in the economy, the time wasted in airports, the foregone returns on investments we didn’t make, the rise in oil prices as a result of the Iraq War, the cost of rebuilding Ground Zero, .................... But it isn’t quite right to say bin Laden cost us all that money. We decided to spend more than a trillion dollars on homeland security measures to prevent another attack. ..................... We didn’t need to respond to failed attempts to smuggle bombs onto airplanes through shoes and shampoo bottles by screening all footwear and banning large shampoo bottles, but we’re a superpower, and our tolerance for risk is extremely low. His greatest achievement was getting our psychology at least somewhat right. |
Originally Posted by saulblum
(Post 16321328)
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/0...st-osamas.html
Translation: no one in authority has the balls to say "enough is enough", and there is not a politician who is not scared s$@tless of an attack happening on his or her watch and not being able to say, "Well, we tried to prevent it, and we'll have to try harder now." |
I'm miles to the left of Jimmy Carter, but I'd _gladly_ take Ron Paul over Obama--or anyone else the Democratic or Republican party will put forward in 2012. It could be the first time in my life I've ever voted Republican.
The only part I find unfortunate is that he's seen as "weird", and he has positions that are extremely unpopular with mainstream America--namely, ending the War on Drugs, ending farm subsidies, withdrawing the military from abroad, and ending foreign aid (including to Israel, the sacred cow of US politics). Oh, and he's also opposed to the death penalty.
Originally Posted by RATM
(Post 16324476)
There is one prominent politician who has said enough is enough, and we have the chance to put him into the presidency in 2012.
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The government uses this an excuse to do even more of the same and then some:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_exclus...n-ladens-death A government given power by the people is loathe to give power back to the people. A government granted liberty to take liberty is not loathe to seize ever more liberties from the people. The FBI is doing as the TSA is doing: ramping up. :eek: And passengers be not spared: In New York, the police are swabbing backpacks and shoulder bags and using Sabre 4000 chemical and biological agent detectors at subway entrances. |
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