[JoJo Gunn]

You'd never see the likes of Collaborators in history as you would with the Left of today.

[Valin]

Panic has been induced by trivial health threats. Most Americans really believe they will die if they breathe in the vicinity of someone smoking. A people afraid of secondhand smoke, a health threat so trivial that "lie" is not too strong a word to describe the dangers ascribed to it


Don't me started on the health-nazis!
Rush, on a show years ago said (paraphase) that so many people think if they eat the right foods, live the right "lifestyle", do the right excercises, they'll never grow old.

[cripplecreek]

"I fear that unless a change in the American psyche and character takes place, car bombs as in Baghdad or terror as in Israel could unravel our society."


I saw how Americans reacted on 9/11. Even the far left behaved in a truly patriotic manner (for a few days anyway) A few years later in the midst of a massive blackout people again behaved honorably and brushed it off. I have faith in the American people.

[Blzbba]

"Why?"


Because America hasn't had to deal with terrorism as a daily part of life for the past 50+ years, unlike Israel. I salute the steadfastness of the Israelis.

[Cornpone]

Not sure the concern applies to the 40 plus million Americans who own legal firearms and train to use them.

[Alouette]

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[metalurgist]

I've often wondered why the muslim extremists haven't used their tactics of car bombs and exploding terrorists or the stunt the Chechnians pulled at the school in Russia here in America? We must have smashed their organization pretty good.

Or is it coming?

[Alouette]

When I was in Israel last November I made a point of riding on the #2 bus, and eating supper at a café in Emek Refaim (across the street from one that was bombed).

Another thing is that Israelis are much more alert than Americans. Here in the U.S. people shuffle along, eyes unfocused, self-absorbed, while Israelis will notice any little thing that seems a bit suspicious. If someone notices a shopping bag left unattended on the sidewalk -- chefetz chashood! -- police will clear the area in a heartbeat.

[sport]

The main stream media and 98% of the American citizenary would demand that all privately owned firearms be immeiately confinskted and we be placed under marital law.

[Howling Patriot]

I am neither Jewish by extraction nor religion. I have to say that, because when I speak of the Middle East, people assume I am an Israeli, or Jewish. I was a product of American schools, so I was trained what to think and not HOW to think. But as I began to be keenly interested in the Middle East after losing several of my Marine friends in the Beirut Airport bombing, the veil fell away from my eyes. I used to be fervently in favor of a Palestinian homeland. Sadly, or maybe justifiedly, any sympathy I had for the Palestinian cause died on September 11th, 2001, crushed with my Uncle at Ground Zero. I watched CNN footage of Palestinians dancing in the streets and handing out candy. (Which their media and PR bulldogs VOCIFEROUSLY denied despite proof.) The Palestinians love of terror has become an Albatross around their neck. I fear what the Palestinians would do with a country that has an economy, an industrial base, and technology. I once worked for an Officer in the U.S. Marines who was born and raised in Lebanon. He once told me Americans would never understand the Arab mind. I DO understand the Arab mind. I understand the currency of fear, the motivating contact of the lash, the powerful images of the hung, the stoned, the tongueless, the disappeared. I think the Arabs will never understand the American mind. They cannot figure out why we support Israel. They make paranoid claims that every newspaper, every bank, every level of government, apparently every American thing is controlled by mysterious "jews". We back Israel because it comes down to who we would want as our neighbors. Who deserves a country at this point? Even with the USS Liberty incident, the Israelis have killed far less Americans than Muslims and Arabs have in the name of Palestine. I'm going with the Israelis. Especially since the Israelis do not practice systematic religous and political platforms based on killing as many innocents as they can, like the Palestinians do. Still, I don't know how the Israelis live through it all. I don't know how they bury, grieve, rebuild and move on so quickly. They bounce back every time.Yes, Israel makes mistakes. America does too. But we at least make an effort to learn from our mistakes. The Palestinians don't seem to learn from the mistake of Terrorism. They try to Justify it. They try to get us to beleive the murder of women, children, the innocent and unrelated is all pertinent, relevant, germane, and cardinal to acheiving and deserving a homeland. Even Americans like me aren't that stupid. So who doesn't understand who's mind? If the kind of terrorism that Israel suffers comes to America that would be the worst mistake the Palestinians could ever make. It won't unravel this country... it will quite simply unravel the world... I guarentee it.

[TMSuchman]

If & when we did end up in this situation, I would first make sure that my family were safe & I would go hunting, I might reactivate the old "regulators". You must look into your old west history to get this one. As the song goes "they call for a rope in Texas and an tall oak tree"

[SweetCaroline]

BUMP

[LAURENTIJ]

$400 billion a year military..

Lots of nukes.

That's how we'd handle it if it gets like Israel.

[WV Mountain Mama]

This is so true on so many levels it is sad. My husband and I could not believe the terror on the news casts because of a flu vaccine shortage! Holy heck people, wash your hands once in a while and you will probably never get it!!!

[Rytwyng]

I often wondered how we Americans would react if such terror came to our restaurants, malls and buses.

CCWs. States that don't already have concealed carry would come under ENORMOUS political pressure to legalize it.

[righttackle44]

"I think the evidence is mixed. I wish I could be entirely optimistic that we would react as befits a nation whose national anthem describes itself as "The home of the brave," but there is too much evidence that suggests a less than strong response."

Why don't you go to hell and ask the dead Taliban guys there whether or not Americans run.

(All bets are off about leftist Americans.)

[dg62]

In a way this article is kind of specious in that the threats to the two different countries aren't really the same. At least at the end he shows faith in the American character. IMO if we were that different than the Israelis then New York would be a ghost town after 911.