[quote="LoSconosciuto";p="104644"]as long as the deficit isn't defended with
"but we're at war" for too much longer. Maybe a short term victory for terrorists, but nothing more, as long as people don't get caught in the
"but everything changed after 9/11" mindset.
Government types are hungry for power (and money). If they're successful in using the terrorist attacks as reasons (excuses) to blow out the budget and attack civil liberties (Patriot Act Parts II, III and IV), Osama will have proven to be the best thing that ever happened to their kind.
If Osama & Co. "win", it'll only be because we let him. Those who believe that the only way to fight this "war on terror" is with M16's... they'll guarantee this silliness to go on forever.[/quote]
Exactly!
They have already won. Bush got relected largely because he's a "war president" and the sheeple won't change horses mid-conflict, even if that horse is running headlong of a cliff. The country is split right down the middle - we'd all rather bicker then work together. The entire world wouldn't shed a tear if we disappeared tomorrow. AND we started a smoke-and-mirrors war to haze over the fact that we couldn't catch the man who perpetrated the attack on us.
Sounds like a slam dunk to me.
