Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass....... Sometimes it's good to slow down and look things over and see how they really stack up and to get a handle on mindset. Since the day the word terrorist was uttered we've used it to excuse our behaviour, bandied it around in whatever context needed to support the desired point of view, and manage to drift aimlessly along without understanding much about it and certainly not doing much to effect a cure for it. Terrorism is particularly brutal because activity is on a very personal level with the one who is doing it and very hard to catch because terrorist acts are usually committed outside the realm of any established government. Targets and methods are up to either individuals or small groups therefore odds of apprehending them before they acheive their deed are remote at best. We have demonstrated plainly we don't have the foggiest idea how to prevent such an attack, and it is an insult to less than average intelligence to pretend we have any idea how to identify with any certanty who will do what next. So why haven't we been attacked within our boundaries by the crazies we call terrorists? Really good question. And very hard to answer. There's no point in trying to convince anyone that it's just too difficult to penetrate our borders. That would draw guffaws from the most isolated natives in Africa. It can't be said we're watching them too closely for them to make their move, we don't even know who they are. It can't be said we're too vigil in our cities for them to move about because again, we have no clue as to what they look like. Most of those apprehended are Americans intending to do harm to Americans. We have displayed an incredible lack of thought in this fight we are imagining, and that's what it is at this point, imagination. If it were anything else, we would be picking up pieces off the streets in every major American city in this country. The possibility of terrorist attack is very real, but very impotent. We've acted so foo;ishly and irresponsible since 9-11 that daily those who would like to retaliate for our behaviour must take a measure of pleasure as they watch us scurry about and wring our hands in fear all the while closing ourselves in and locking more doors and giving up more freedoms and being dumb while we do it. The real way to eliminate terrorism is to stop our offensive intrusion into other governments across the globe and act only in what is truly in our national interest, which wouldn't be much. While we're at it, it wouldn't hurt a thing to stop cheering on the Iraeli's as they murder those under their control daily. This is probably at the heart of the Muslim world's hatred of us, and since it's our money, our fighter planes and our nuclear bombs, (yes, they have those too, we gave them to them) we will stand accountable for their behaviour as long as we fund it and condone it. It's not such a huge stretch to mind your own business, we just can't imagine doing so, but if we should re-learn that art, the terrorist threat will diminish. Because they simply don't give a damn how happy and free we may be, they just don't want our nose up their ass and on their soil. I can understand that..............