Posted on 09/13/2001 11:54:38 PM PDT by kristinn
Truth. I agree. There is also an implication that somehow Bush is the bad guy here, and I'm sorry, that is not fair, and it is CERTAINLY the wrong time for such an unfair recrimination.
Pat Buchanan surprises me on occasion. I am amazed by how well this commentary fits this thread.
Kristinn, you mention Pat Buchanan. Please, good sir, learn from the very man you cite.
Deal.
The BATF is the most cowboy-ish, unprofessional, problem-ridden organization in the United States. The FBI has its share of foulups and coverups. The DEA enforces laws that merely serve to strip us of our BoR. The CIA has so many failures it has been called "Comedy In Action".
However, right now, I salute them. I am proud of them all. I wish them much success in this investigation. They are my fellow Americans and they are our only line of defense.
With whom?
What does this do? During wartime, it aids and abets the enemy. It weakens your President as he and his family are the target of terrorists, ridiculed by the press and surrounded by opponents trying to set traps for him.
Who is to support the President? Why would you send your leader out to fight all enemies, even those behind his back, all alone? When you encourage support of your troops, why would you not want encouragement for the Commander-in-Chief? What would happen to a soldier if he was treated as the President is treated?
I have been so disappointed on what I have seen from you conservatives. Where are the constructive criticisms, the respectful differing points of view, the suggestions? I see none of this - I see people unhappy with government as government is today. They will never have a government that they like because you can't evolve backward in time. They then take it out on the man who is in power doing their best to prevent him being an effective president. I see armchair quarterbacks second-guessing every move knowing only a fraction of the total picture, I see complainers and whiners trying to gain respect by attacking their president.
If you expect us to take the criticisms, then make them criticisms handled in a respectful way. Quit the Bush-bashing because you don't have the Hollywood president who is all things to all people at all times. You have one man as president and he can do no more than one man. A pity you didn't get your perfect candidate but that is life. You have to play the cards dealt you.
I recommend Pat's whole commentary...cancerous as it is.
Too many are extremely reactive...Larry Klayman and Alan Keyes for example, have not produced anything but a bunch of empty talk..Sure it sounds good, but what good have they really done? If we do not stay united we surely will fall.
What have any of us done, but empty talk? It's okay for them -- and us -- to express ourselves, since we are largely helpless. Sure, we've given blood and our paltry sums of money and so on, but there's nothing else to do BUT talk.
Actually, on one account I read, apparantly fighter jets were scrambled from a nearby base, but arrived in the region too late.
JimRob himself says this site was intended for like-minded people. He congratulated Bush on the victory. I would expect some fair-mindedness regarding his performance. Some don't possess that, showing the worst attributes of liberals.
Believe it or not, Free Republic was not established as an "anything goes" free speech forum, or as a liberal debating society. This forum was established as a working forum for like-minded lovers of individual rights to work toward preserving a concept near and dear to our hearts. Freedom.
1 Posted on 05/09/2001 17:30:14 PDT by Jim Robinson.
Obviously, it was not as safe to fly as we assumed.
If our air traffic safety was so secure before, why is there a perceived problem now ?
Um, probably because there was a group of insane whack jobs that flew into the WTC, Pentagon, and who know where else if they didn't crash.
Could it be that it wasn't really that safe ?
Perceptive.
I was supposed to fly to LOGAN airport the night this happened. You think I wanted to get on plane? How many bomb threats were logged after these events? How many buildings were shut down and evacuated. After an event like this, its probably safer to err on the side of caution until there are mechanisms in place to try and prevent John Q. Terrorist from boarding our domestic flights and killing thousands more. People have long been saying that airport security is lax. Seems like it is a good time to start fixing the holes, especially since no one knew if there were more whackos interested in meeting their maker via a flying fireball.
I have been more than happy to criticize the Bush administration and its KoolAid drinking cheerleaders who blindly support what I perceive to be anti conservative ideas. But I think it is a stretch to blame this on Bush jr. Our intelligence agencies have been neutered by Clinton mostly. Our security has been rendered inefficient by Politically Correct rhetoric that makes any "questioning" the target of claims of racisms, sexism, xenophobia...etc.
These problems are the result of extended corruption. Make sure you blame the right people.
You must have inadvertently skipped over the excellent comments at #28.
Well, what ever makes you feel good. But the red letters above the reply box makes alot of sense. A little wisdom before shooting off doesn't hurt either and that is why so many here see people like Klayman and Keyes as useless idiots.
I didn't/don't see it that way in relation to airport "security". The fact is we never had any at all. What we had was political pablum to convince the non-thinking people that gooberment was "doing something". All this "something" amounted to was insuring traveling was a supreme pain in the ass for innocent civilians. It obviously did nothing at all to deter any terrorists. Name ONE terrorist who was ever stopped or arrested because of the metal detectors,the lack of lockers in waiting rooms,or a minimum wage security guard. Now they are going to ban pocket knives and prohibit people from loading luggage at curbside. Just more BS and pablum to convince people they are "doing something".
OOOPS! There is ONE exception to this. The gooberment DID manage to totally eliminate smoking on aircraft,even going so far as to put smoke alarms in the toilets. At least they protected us all from the "dangers of second hand smoke",huh?
I wouldn't. He'd be bombing a sheep ranch in New Zealand. The man was/is a total bleeping idiot.
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