Gotta agree with you on the Pearl Jam thing. My God, inserting politics into a Pink Floyd song? What's the world coming to?
Brezhnev took Afghanistan,
Begin took Beirut,
Galtieri took the Union Jack,
And Maggie over lunch one day
took a cruiser with all hands,
apparently to make him give it back.
-from the Final Cut, 1983
Good choices. I've never heard of this idiot Stu Bykofsky, but I've read similar utterances from a few republican politicians and pundits. Michelle Malkin, of course, can't help falling over herself to pin every single disaster, whether it's a fallen bridge or school shooting or whatever, on "islamofascist" terrorists. Bill O'Reilly told terrorists to "Go Ahead" and "blow up the Coit Tower" in San Francisco. It is these Republican National Committee commercials. It's almost like these people are rooting for Al Qaeda.
And they really are rooting for the terrorists. Whether they know it or not.
(oddly, this part got cut off in the last post)
Terrorism is not the act of killing, it's the act of creating fear. When someone fears you, they have some level of control over you, makes you easily manipulated. What Stu Bykofsky is really saying is that another 9/11 attack will "sew us back together" as a bunch of cowards who'll rally again behind this president to lead us into another disasterous war with Iran.
All because of what? Al Qaeda is hardly a speck of dirt next to the United States. They can kill hundreds or maybe thousands of people if we let our watch down, but there's absolutely nothing within their power that can have any impact on us as a country, yet the republican party is doing all that for them.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
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