I wish I'd said that

[JackLuis]

The Rude Pundit is blunt and sometimes that is needed.

"Al-Qaeda, Liz Cheney, and American Failure:"
It's hard to pinpoint, this general feeling of anxiety and apprehension that has afflicted Americans. Joblessness, Congressional paralysis, airwaves filled with bickering phantoms all day and all night, it's all so very hard to take. But for the Rude Pundit, there's one thing that overwhelms him more often than all the rest. He's tired of us being such pussies about terrorism.

Or, to put it more precisely, it's exhausting to see politicians and citizens toss away our rights, our freedoms, our Constitutional guarantees, all because a couple of goat fuckers learned from the CIA how to blow shit up. He's tired of surrendering to the thugs. Lately, in America, every day is like getting your lunch money stolen by the bullies."

What has the "War on Terror" cost and what is that worth?

Afghanistan was a shit hole when we got there and will be a shit hole when we leave.

Iraq? Don''t make me cry. Every one of the Bush-Cheney mob should be prosecuted, if it were up to me.

Random Terrorists, let the FBI track them and remove them. Let the CIA get the hell out of the Black Arts. All that OSS shit has gone to their heads, if there is no IMMINENT THREAT, why do we need all those fucking assholes?

When Bush said, "Well bring'em on!" I had to agree with him, even as I knew he had stepped in shit. Americans were encouraged to be afraid and follow the rules, "report any suspicious activity to the Attorney General."

 

[JackLuis]

Rude Pundit Concludes

"Here's the dirty secret: we were pretty fucking safe prior to 9/11. We aren't really much more safe after. We should be vigilant and strong. We should be infiltrating groups and breaking them up. We should be negotiating with other countries. Ultimately, though, you can use all the technological geegaws in the world, you can get DNA and feces samples of everyone coming into the country, you can drown every detainee, but you're not gonna stop the lone fucker who wants to crash a plane or blow up his balls. It's the price of living in these armed times.

And, honestly, on the whole, for those of us who remember the Cold War, it's a little easier to live with the odds of a terrorist attack versus the odds of an earth-destroying nuclear war. (But we were still told on a daily basis to bug out over Commies.) At some point, we have to decide if we are a nation of principle or a nation that capitulates to the merest threats."

Perhaps our Senate will provide leadership?