According to good 'ol boy Charlie Daniels:
Terror is real, it's here to stay and it can't be ignored away, placated away, dreamed away or whisked away by some self-serving politician who has nothing but criticism to offer? It can only be destroyed and it's either them or us.
...(yada yada yada)
I think it's time we developed the same policy toward them. There is no middle ground, no compromise and no sanctuary. It's all or nothing...
meaning, if I understand you correctly, develop the same policy the neocons are executing in the 'global war on terror' on those who oppose neocon foreign policies right here in the 'good 'ol usa'.
The full diatribe is here:
Charlie Daniels soapbox
Okay Charlie. I know you're terrified about getting blown to bits but now you want to engage in the 'same policy' in the GWOT against political opposition. Mighty christian and American of ya' I might say...NOT. Never mind the fact that any of us are probably 1 million times more likely to get killed in a car accident or die from heart disease.
1999 world death rate rankings
US mortality
Charlie you might notice that the world death rate per 1,000 stats in the US is much greater than Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq (pre-invasion #'s no doubt), the West Bank, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the Gaza Strip and Qatar. I don't know if that says anything (CIA world factbook 1999) to you but maybe a look at daily life for palestinians might help...(1hr 19 min)
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised land
Now Charlie if you were fiddling "The Devil went down to Gaza" for the past 30 of your 70 some years in Gaza a poverty stricken and tightly controlled territory, I'd bet you'd be singing Hamas songs by now because I probably would after so many years of NO FREEDOM and periodic forced homelessness. Yet for all that terrorizing the death rates are lower than the US...hmmmm...maybe, just maybe oppression is the root cause of terrorist acts?
Why is that so hard for America to realize? I can tell by some of my email that there are people out there that are so blinded by their hate of George W. Bush that they're willing to believe just about anything some crackpot puts out that makes him look bad.
No, no, no Charlie you're not understanding these things. I hated Clinton for signing NAFTA, hated him for it. There were a few other things I didn't like at all about him but overall this country was in much better shape then. Gw looks bad all on his own dude. The only crackpot that makes him look even worse is his script writer.
I hate getting lied to about another useless war, killing people who did NOTHING to us Charlie (even though we did kill 500,000 of them back in the desert storm perhaps justifiably) and having the economy (meaning JOBS) go to hell in handbasket...these are the things I hate about the neocons. I hate our soldiers getting killed, maimed and spending the next 30 years of their lives coping with PTSD...FOR NOTHING. Yep...I hate it Charlie. I hate our constitution getting spit on, our laws being ignored by the WH and our flag used to elicit false patriotism.
By the way Charlie, for 300 billion dollars we've killed about 180,000 people. There are over 1 billion muslims in the world...so with this "us or them" mentality at this rate it costs $1.666 million per muslim or about 1,666 trillion dollars to knock em all off. Good luck dude, maybe God will forgive you when the grim reaper comes..but I truly doubt it.
One of two things will happen, America will heed the alarm clock screaming at us or we will be kicked awake by an even more devastating terrorist attack.
The only real alarm clock screaming now is the politicians you support are worried about losing absolute power. If there is another attack, it will be in a blue state somewhere, just like 911 and the democratic politicians who amazingly were the only recipients of the anthrax scare. What the hell are you really worried about? You're calling on people to go after political opposition to the WH. Damn...I believe Ronny 'your buddy' VanZant would think you've lost it now...its a shame he ain't here.
No matter what else is on my mind, no matter what else I think about, there is always a hard lump at the edge of my consciousness and it never goes away. And that is my fear that America is in at least partial denial about the very real and deadly danger we face.
That hard lump Charlie is the tumor of fear and ignorance. There is a cure and its called the TRUTH. The democrats will bring it, hopefully all of it for a full cure for you. I have spent 12 years of my life designing and building the war machines that make you think you're safe. What have you done except fiddle around and now try to turn Americans against each other?
Be vigilant America, wake up and smell the impending doom.
Pray for our troops.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Love your country, not your party, wake up and vote out politicians who are dooming your country's future
Arm the troops properly, use effective international diplomacy coupled with intelligent military deployment decisions, and fully fund the VA and help for them in jobs and mental health when they get back...otherwise our troops don't have much of a prayer
These are my beliefs and thoughts
The god gw worships will damn America to hell if you let ignorance, greed and fear rule it. Any questions, go read a bible....not Leviticus dummy, Book of James or Thessalonians