In other countries, there are terrorist attacks regularly. A bomb here or there. Some people die. If it's not from terrorism, something else will get them. What's the difference?
Those countries don't hold hearings against a particular group because members of that same group committed a terrorist act ten years ago. That would be stupid, nonsensical, and a waste.
In other countries, people just on about their day after a terrorist attack. Sure, there's sadness and grief, but there's no whining. Life goes on.
Not in America, land of the pussies. We still hold to the logic that if 19 men who are Muslims committed a terrorist act ten years ago, we need to persecute people who are Muslims now. We can't get over it. Our foreign policy is consumed by what happened on one day ten years ago. So is our domestic policy. Any reasonable argument can be discounted by mentioning that we should still be afraid because of what happened on that fateful day.
Does that sound like this is the home of the brave? People are willing to give up their freedom because of their fear of Muslims, an illogical fear. America used to be filled with hardworking children. Tough men and women. Those weren't better days, but the lessons they provide shouldn't totally be discounted. People were tougher then. They didn't buy a bunch of duct tape out of fear. Let's stop being pussies.
- The 2011 John Wayne
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