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Originally Posted by dsvick
But what, really have they won? What is it exactly that the little psychopaths hope to accomplish by killing people? Is it just to inconvenience us? In that case yep, they've won - they can stop now. Stupid F#$%Nuts....
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What have they won?
Have you looked at the bill that our current two wars have racked up?
Have you looked at the bill that all this senseless internal "security" has racked up?
Have you considered how the "Department of Homeland Security" has consolidated our multiple branches of bureaucracy into one monolithic government agency that is so ponderous that disasters like Katrina turn out worse than they would have been before it's formation?
Have you considered how, not only the PATRIOT Act, but many other laws, big and small, constrict our freedoms and liberties more and more each day?
Have you considered how our country has become morally bankrupt with the practice of torture and our own brand of terrorism. (I refer specifically to the use of Predator drones to target "suspected" terrorists in Pakistan.)
The terrorists have won because we are abandoning our principles to gain safety. The terrorists have won because we are bankrupting ourselves monetarily, spending untold billions on dubious measures against a minor threat. Suppose one passenger flight goes down, is this going to cripple our country any more than the actions we have taken to protect ourselves?
Every day we allow our policies to be driven by the agenda of terrorists is a day the terrorists have won.