We are Safer...But Not Yet Safe.....Hmmmm

The President is saying to the American people that we are safer now then we were (I assume he means before 9-11) but not yet safe. But really, how can you really tell? From the first bombing in 1993 of the WTC until the attacks on 9-11, we did experience terrorist acts on this soil, but that was from a domestic terrorist (Timothy Mcveigh) in Oklahoma. Of course there were other attacks on Americans overseas (see USS Cole and the Foreign Embassy bombings) but most Americans did not fear a terrorist attack in this country until after 9-11. The prospects that a group of individuals would be able to use box cutters to hijack airliners was not even something most of us would have thought was possible. There had not been a domestic hijacking in the United States for decades. Yet that day.....9-11-2001...we had four. So it is true that we have not seen similar attacks since that fateful day, but does that mean it is because of our new "war on terror" or because we have just been damn lucky? The terrorist that attacked us on 9-11, prepared for years. They were creative thinkers. They learned from their past failures and they succeeded spectacularly on that day. Somewhere in this world...another group is planning the next big attack. They too are creative in their thinking and also patient. They are just lying in wait for the right time to execute. It might be under this administration or perhaps the next or the one after that. But they understand that this "war" is never going to end. They have set no timetable for its length nor set any specific guideline for how it defines victory. To them, victory is achieved by killing as many Americans as they can. Pretty simple really. So the President says we are safer...but not yet safe. But tomorrow, if another city is hit by something like what happened in NY, how could he ever claim we were safer? We eliminate one possibility and they come up with three more. Perhaps our new policies regarding air travel will lower the chances of hijackings, but what about our buses and trains? Who is to say that a person with a dirty bomb won't get on a bus in Albany and take it over and ram it into a public building? What about a bomb on Amtrak that goes off just as it approaches Penn Station at rush hour? What about the 90 percent of containers coming in from ships all across this world that go un-inspected? Tell me my peeps...do you feel safer? I don't. But that being said...I don't really fear a terrorist attack. I fear the highways. Unsafe drivers everywhere. I fear drunk red necks with guns. (especially those who become Vice President) I fear the stupid people who make stupid decisions that cost lives everyday. Now that is a war worth fighting for. Lets rally against stupid people. That...like the war on terror or the war on drugs....will be a neverending war. Most of all...I fear the lost of freedom and privacy and individual liberty that this administration says is the price we have to pay to "keep us safe." If it is the price we have to pay, they better be damn sure they do keep us safe. That's all I am saying. Because if we get hit again...maybe bigger then the last time...and we gave up most of what we were told we are fighting for...then its all very pointless. So Mr. President...keep making us safer. We are counting are you. Maybe you could start some more wars...take our minds off how unsafe we feel...oh and pick a easier target this time. (maybe Cuba....no not Cuba....ahhh...how about Haiti...oh yeah been there done that....what about......well we will let you and Dick decide)