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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill, a British Philosopher

Yes, even in the midst of death and destruction, we should have had more sense than to think we could go after terrorists and win a victory. How could we have been so stupid? We should have dropped to our knees, right there on the streets of New York, in towns all over America, and asked forgiveness for all the horrible things we've done to people everywhere in the world. Isn't that what we've been made to feel?

We should have felt the guilt of being a super power and we should not have even considered bringing justice to a group of people that wanted to kill us. And oh yes, we should have impeached George Bush right on the spot. It was his fault that we didn't wave the white flags of surrender. If we had only used our minds, not listened to his lies, we would have "given up" and everything would be fine. Oh, the time, effort and pain we would have saved ourselves.

Yep! That's right. Hands in the air . . . white handkerchiefs waving amidst all the debris. It would have been easier to "give it up" to strangers who invaded our country, took over our planes and used them against us than to witness our own fellow Americans essentially inflicting destruction on one another -- our infighting has almost destroyed what our nation has built for the past 229 years.

If, in fact, the situation were reversed, we would have all been marched off to detention camps where they would no doubt have allowed the "White Christians" to have prayers broadcast five times a day; they would have passed out Bibles with gloves on, and handed them to us with both hands in a very respectful manner . . . just as the Koran is being issued everyday at Guantanamo Bay.

Why, this would have been glorious. Instead of being denounced by our own fellow Americans as fanatical and extreme - not wanting us to pray or bring our Bibles to school; not to mention God; to keep Him out of any public venue - we would have had it made in those detainee camps. We would have indeed had that direct line to heaven that Hillary accuses us of having.

We wouldn't have had to listen to Howard Dean tell us how much he hates us, and as he asserts that many of us have never made an honest living in our lives, we could just go ahead and lounge around reading our Bibles all day and eating our honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf.

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