OK Things are looking worse, I feel like this is de ja vu from the Bush years.
So we had an attempted terrorist attack. Airport security failed to stop it but passengers did stop it.
So what to do? Obama talks about this huge failure. What about all the people who smuggle drugs into this country every day. The war on drugs is a failure just as the war on terror is and forever will be.
So let's stop fighting it!!!
Improve security when possible. But it will always be possible to blow up a plane. Militants have already put bombs inside their bodies that were remotely activated. We should not waste too much money and energy freaking out about airport security. What we need to do is stop doing the things that make the world hate us.
And Obama is doing the opposite. Escalation in Afghanistan, drone attacks in Pakistan, now talk of military action in Yemen where this latest terrorist may have trained.
We cannot kill all the terrorists! For every militant our drones kill in Pakistan we kill 10 civilians. The Taliban show up after a drone attack and recruit the brothers,etc of the civilians killed - increasing their numbers far beyond the one militant we may have killed.
We give military aide to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, they intern buy weapons we make here in the US (our only last export) and then we go around killing people over there, supporting Israel as they kill people, and all this makes the world more dangerous and makes the Christmas day attempt more and more likely.
If we want to be safe, airport scanners (that may give us cancer) are not the answer!!! Ending US led violence abroad and the militarization of the world for profit are what we need to focus on.
Obama said change doesn't come from Washington it comes to Washington. Well he is Washington %100 and he is going for the same old "smoke em out and kill 'em all" strategy that will not work. The anti war movement better stop celebrating their victory over McCain/Palin and start bringing some of that change TO Washington.
Stop the War on Terror. War IS Terror!
post script
Now I must ad a little post script. As disapointed I am in the Democratic Leadership running our country I must point out that the Republicans are still worse so no matter how much the Dems suck we must keep the Republicans from regaining control
This terrorist incident has illustrated that fact once again. While we have this breach in airline security, Obama's nominee to run the department in charge of Airline security is being held up right now by the Republicans because they fear he will unionize airport security workers. Their fight against unions (the working class) is so deep rooted it trumps their concern for national security. Of course they use twisted logic to say unions will make us less safe but that is a shallow argument.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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