“We are AT WAR..!”
Even though it was finally clear it was a terror attack, I was still THEN dubious at the notion that the USA was really at war:
That was melodrama, I thought.
Yet in time it was clear that first impulse was CORRECT —the USA was in fact at war.
“If we let the terrorists change the way we live EVEN A LITTLE BIT, then THEY WIN..!”
I heard that assertion a million times, injected even for stupid, trifling things.
Yet in fact the way we live HAS UTTERLY AND TOTALLY CHANGED, perhaps forever.
They do NOT envy our booz, our bikini beaches, our Universities, crowded and finally now dominated by women.
We CANNOT re-create the American mid-West in the Middle-East and we should NEVER try to, not even a little bit:
Let us guard our OWN immigration, our OWN borders, and let them play in sand, dirty, disease and illiteracy.
What can we do?
Looking at what has become of Europe, We the Forest People can behold what is around us in our own country, what is small now but will grow larger later, reach down and ruthlessly tear out every bit of influence of the Sand People.
I mean ALL Sand People.