tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10935592.post7470241451508881054..comments2023-04-17T08:20:52.990-04:00Comments on Contumacious: Is Civil War Coming to America?Bill Owenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02682776677082673420noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10935592.post-7692569093318848552008-10-14T17:14:00.000-04:002008-10-14T17:14:00.000-04:00Thanks Greg. Yes, it is a "provocative" headline. ...Thanks Greg. Yes, it is a "provocative" headline. But I am not trying to be provocative, not in the political, activist sense anyway. America truly is on edge of a dark and dangerous precipice. Look at these videos and what it has come down to, two sides, two solitudes as we say here in "socialist" Canada shouting mindless hateful slogans at each other.<BR/><BR/>I suppose there is hope Greg, there is always hope, even in the cell of the condemned man. But is it rational hope? And if so what is the intellectual and political basis for that hope? Obama? I don't think Obama is a terrorist or supports terrorism, that's nuts. But he is, to his core, an establishment candidate. He wants to wind down the war in Iraq and ramp it up in Afghanistan. He says it is now the "central front in the war on terrorism" but offers no rationale as to why that is, or how, exactly the war in Afghanistan will end terrorism! Is there hope for peace when the man who is almost certainly going to be the next president buys into nonsensical wars on a tactic (terrorism)?<BR/><BR/>Is there hope when Obama says he will continue to attack and kill people in Pakistan, a country that is not at war with the United States, simply in order to "kill" Bin Laden? And why "kill" Bin Laden? Whatever happened to capture and try? Does he have so little understanding of the culture and religion of the enemy (and to most Americans, and certainly your government that enemy is Islam) that he does not understand that killing Bin Laden will actually elevate him further, it will make him a shaheed, a martyr?<BR/><BR/>No, the only hope for America and the world is that things will become so bad in America, economically, politically, and militarily, that someday America will, and I hate to use this phrase, "wake up" and look at themselves in the mirror and ask, "Why do they hate us?" and then actually listen when the world answers.Bill Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02682776677082673420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10935592.post-41750100707897770252008-10-12T12:05:00.000-04:002008-10-12T12:05:00.000-04:00Incredible video! Thanks for posting it -- and the...Incredible video! Thanks for posting it -- and the provocative headline. Plus, my article on Bugliosi and Vermont. We are certainly in the midst of volatile and potentially polarizing times. Still, there is hope. For more on media and politics, please visit http://muckraker-gg.blogspot.com/.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com