"Tim J." wrote in message
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riverman wrote:
"Larry L" wrote in message
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"Lazarus Cooke" wrote

Get a life guys, stop being paranoid, and killing innocent people
with your paranoia.

Go fishing.

Thank you and I mean that sincerely .... this country is so paranoid
it is it's own worst enemy

And I agree and concur wholeheartedly. Hearing Joe American from
OshKosh being paranoid about Al Queda kidnapping the local gas
jockey, or meekly submitting to having his body and luggage searched
when he takes his yearly flight to Sheboygan to visit the in-laws is
just ridiculous. When I consider Joe American's lifestyle to what I
experience here and experienced in Israel: open gunfights in the
street, tank battles in front of the complex, incoming mortar
fire....And the next day, no one is terrorized. Its back to life as
usual. Were it that Americans had such resiliance and thick skin
inside their own country. Instead of 'getting over it', which is the
ultimate power against fear, we get milked and milked by our leaders,
led by the nose all over helenback, and are an embarassment in front
of the world. Ever noticed how little 'sympathy' for 9/11 we are
getting from countries who deal with terrorism on a regular basis?
We're embarassing ourselves.

I'm not sure who this "we" is. Everyone I know has gone about their daily
lives without having to pay for a shrink. Personally, I'm not the least
bit embarrased. Ever notice what little sympathy we in America get for
*anything*? Probably because we don't need it and can take care of
ourselves.
--
TL,
Tim

I'm not so sure we can 'take care of ourselves', Tim, especially when we
import so much stuff, and consume so much more than we generate. As long as
we need furrin friends, furrin oil, furrin trade, furrin investment and rely
on friendly furrin markets for our goods we can't really 'take care of
ourselves'. We need international goodwill and cooperation in many arenas,
which depends a lot on being percieved as a goodwilled and cooperative
nation outselves.

And I'm even less sure that Americans are 'going about their daily lives'.
We just allowed a ton of personal freedoms to get compromised, we are
standing in lines for airplanes for 3-4 hours, we justify having a president
who is alienating our country to many other parts of the world because he
'makes us feel safer at home' (and a lot of evidence shows that he is, in
acuality doing the opposite), we are rushing out to buy duct tape and window
plastic, we are casting suspicious glances at any Arabs in our midst, we no
longer travel around the world as freely as we used to, our economy is being
dragged down by the largest military budget and the largest federal deficit
in history, our country is being polarized worse than it ever has in our
countries history....exactly what about your 'daily life' is the same now as
it was 5 years ago??

Maybe our country does need a collective shrink!

--riverman