1. A few hundred or so looney American lefties that a few hundred or so other looney American lefties take seriously. Not that that makes their opinions any less odious.
2. A few hundred or so religious right leaders that millions of people take seriously.
3. A few hundred irrelevant European “journalists” that no one takes seriously.

No Democratic Senator, Congressperson, Governor, Mayor, State legislator, City council member, or Daily Kos poster. But that won’t stop you from thinking so, and it won’t stop me from losing my lunch when you suggest it, and the bloody wedge of extremist political rhetoric will continue to divide our country. Which is why, like I said, it doesn’t really matter.

Yes, I’m in a sour mood, heh.

Nothing to honor the heroes and the victims of an unprovoked day of savagery that took the lives of 3,000 innocent Americans. No credit at all to a government and an administration, love them or hate them, that has successfully averted another horrif…

You people make it sound so simple to understand. Like the enemy is so clearly defined and the battle plan so obvious. Well it’s not. After the attacks of 9/11 the world generally felt that going after the perpetrators was a justified war, liberals and Democrats included. But when it came to Iraq and the neocon “plan for a new American century” and things started to fall apart. Democracy was going to the cure all for the Middle East problem. After spending over $300 billion dollars, straining our military to its limits, killing tens of thousands Iraqis (half of them children), over 2.600 dead soldiers and almost 20,000 wounded, we have a democracy. The brave people of Iraq went to the polls risking their lives to vote. And the winner is–SCIR or the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution. Whoops!

You want simple? Here’s simple: American foreign policy either increases the number of terrorists or decreases them. There seems to no doubt that the current policy is dramatically increasing Jihadists. Previously Jihadists were a minor radical element in the Arab world. Today Jihad has become mainstream in the Arab world because of the Iraq war.

BTW, After the UK bombing plot was rolled up a few weeks ago George Will wrote, ‘John Kerry was right. Combating terrorism is mainly a matter of intelligence and law enforcement.’

“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream — the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order — or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. ” — Ronald Reagan

The New York Times published its 9/11 memorial editorial this evening on their website in advance of tomorrows print copy. I read it with a bit of wonder and fascination. Not for the editor’s words of wisdom or for the sophisticated heart felt homage…