Posted on 05/27/2004 6:51:15 AM PDT by areafiftyone
For myself, I'd like move to New Hampshire if I could get my wife on board with the idea. Houston seems nice (never been there though) but the property taxes look outrageous.
-ct
Thank you! I'm sick and tired of all this NY bashing. Maybe these people would like it if we were to get attacked again -- might put us in our place, right?
I do worry about an attack taking place, what with Nurse Picknose in charge here. He'd probably make some snotty remarks about the terrorists and think he's done his job...
I would argue your earlier premise, that the current war is an outgrowth of the previous war. The Cold War (or WW III, as some of us like to call it) produced Vietnam, which gave a rise to radical liberalism, which fostered energy policies that prevented domestic exploitation of our own resources. This liberalism also was responsible for a "hands off" approach when Islamunists appropriated our resources by nationalizing American oil companies properties overseas.
In short, if we'd have kicked butt quickly in Nam, we would have been able to have the national will to kick Arab butt, and we wouldn't have ragheads with riches to contend with. Also, we funded some pretty unsavory characters in that part of the world in order to beat the Soviets, and that's coming back to bite us in the arse today. Clearly, the Islamofacists see our handling of Vietnam to be their blueprint for victory today.
If NYC goes, the whole economy goes, so start planting your gardens and digging your root cellars out there in the heartland.
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