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Originally posted by KRL@Dec 7 2003, 11:27 AM
Since 1941 the United States has spent about $15 Trillion to build the most powerful security, defense and military force the world has ever seen, and how ironic that on 9/11 just a handful of simple men showed the world the immense power that can be wielded not by attacking the United States with the nuclear weapons it has feared for the past 5 decades, but rather with just men's hands, some box cutters, a bit of ingenuity, and the unfaltering willingness to die for your cause.
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Not trying to tarnish your reputation
, but I agree completely. It points out the fundamental flaw in the Bush policy toward the war on terror - the idea that it is a problem that can be solved exclusively with military force.
I'm an unrepentant leftist, but I'm not one who rants and raves about the interment. Oh, it was a dispicable act based on racism and accomplished absolutely nothing, and is a black mark on our history. Even so, it's hardly suprising in a society that barely "allowed" a portion of its population to actually fight because it wasn't believed that they could (or the descendants of former traitors didn't like the idea of them getting their hands on guns).