We are become the monsters we fear.
If we lose the war on terror it will be because our enemies know what they will die for while we will be whimpering in corners and hoping that Big Brother will save our cowardly asses.
Where are courage, honor, compassion?
____
Certainly not in your words. Your words above are laden with cultural self-loathing and timidity.
Demonstrate how sitting on one's hands and waiting for the next (and larger) Islamist strike embodies courage, honor, or compassion. Rather they are words of cowardice, accommodation, and exceptionalism.
Again I ask you: what would FDR do?
------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html