Final word on STUPIDity

To be perfectly honest, this article was actually written during the meeting. So what was it that made me so angry? The simple fact that there were four speakers chosen, and not a one was representing an opposing point of view. This was a lopsided, pulpit-pounding rant on how bad the gub-mint (nod to Mark Twain) is. It seems that there is always two sides to every story, but at this meeting, it was a bunch of one-sided fringe opinions. Even the tree-hugging, Patagonia-type wearing teacher said as much. I asked him later about that and he said that however he personally felt about the issue, there was a side that was completely unrepresented. So, in response to the comments, I still hate terrorism.

Here's a thought that I had. How do we try to fight a war for which there is no precedent in our country's experience? We are trying to fight people who are less than honest about their true intentions. Osama says America is evil and therefore should be destroyed (or converted to Islam). Hitler was at least honest enough to and say, "I think I am stronger than my combined enemies and will therefore try and take control." Osama is a little more oblique. Osama says, "America is evil because it supports Israel, and therefore we have a right to kill as many Americans as we can." What he's thinking is that he can influence the politics of the U.S. and maybe gain a measure of control either actual or tacit. I guess the question is how do we fight an idea when the cycle is: Americans are evil therefore kill them, and if they fight back, they're evil and should be killed.

Do I know what Osama's actual thoughts are? No, but isn't this a cycle that repeats itself all over the world?