"When 9/11 happened what were you asked to do? Nothing. Go shopping. That's what we were told," Burns said. "Go shopping. It's ridiculous. Nobody said, 'This is a war born of oil, turn your thermostats down five degrees.'"
Burns obviously hasn't learned anything about what this war is about with a comment like that. It is about whether or not western Judeo-Christian civilization will defend itself against a group of radical Moslems who believe that the world should return to its 7th Century existence and all should either be Islamic or be 1) dead or 2) enslaved/subservient to the Islamic theocracy.
"Go shopping. That's what we were told," Burns said. "Go shopping. It's ridiculous."
I agree with Burns on this. We were told that the WOT was a mortal peril, which I thought it was and still think it is. And then we were told to do nothing. The public wasn't enlisted into the war in any way. Which made it a lot easier for the Left to say, this is all a farce, there's no threat. And made it a lot harder for the Administration to enlist support for the steps it had to take.
True. And I wonder if he has any idea what World War II was about. I expect this flic to be a batch of scenes about "common people" with little or no content that shows the overall threat, purpose, scope, or strategy of the war.