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Congresswoman: "I'm Glad People Have This 9/11 Mentality Again"
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
In the wake of non-stop propaganda from politicians of both parties, as well as a mainstream media desperate for ratings, the American public is finally terrified enough to support another war in the Middle East. This is an unfortunate development I lamented in yesterday’s post: The American Public: A Tough Soldier or a Chicken Hawk Cowering in a Cubicle? Some Thoughts on ISIS Intervention.
With just 6% of likely U.S. voters thinking Congress is doing a good or excellent job according to a recent Rasmussen poll, it’s no surprise to see so many of these corrupt clowns falling over one another to appear tough on ISIS, using myriad hyperbolic and Orwellian statements.
Let’s start with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) who decided to see if she could take crazy to a whole other level:
“There’s been no pushback against the Islamic State and they have made breathtaking advances. We haven’t seen anything like this since Hitler and the blitzkrieg in World War II
The Islamic State have declared war against the infidel, they have declared war against the U.S.”
Well Rep. Bachmann, perhaps ISIS wouldn’t be so successful if not for our allies funding it, in addition to its use of U.S. military hardware. But of course those arms must’ve just immaculately conceived themselves out of thin air in the desserts of Mesopotamia.
You think that’s bad, how about this one from Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa:
“I’m glad people have this 9/11 mentality again.”
This brings up a whole host of followup questions. Why is she glad that people have this 9/11 mentality again? I can’t think of a single positive trend that has happened within the U.S. since September 11, 2001. However, I can think of several awful trends. Let’s name a few:
1) The destruction of the middle class amid a horrible economy.
2) The shredding of the Constitution in the name of security, yet the intelligence services have stopped zero terrorist attacks with all their invasive spying since 9/11.
3) The militarization of the domestic police force.
4) Enormous expansion of our national debt to fund an imperial military presence overseas.
5) Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dead human beings overseas and several countries destroyed beyond recognition (Iraq and Libya) in order to win a “war on terror,” which 13 years later is obviously no closer to being won.
Shall I go on?
But sure, I can see how an environment of fear is in the best interest of corrupt politicians with a 6% approval rating.
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some people just never learn...
Notice how it's the Islamic State and not a organization with a leader.
The state is always an autonomous threat when it's their enemy, but your only ally when they need your support.
It has to be a "state" so the West, primarily the US, can declare war on it. We have a history of not doing very well against vague or borderless threats.
Interesting that Obama said ISIS were not Islamic. What does that actually mean? ISIS forms a state then we bomb the shit out of them. Are we then going to declare that no Muslims were actually injured in the filming of this new warfront? I don't know what Obama actually meant even though I read his words for clarity after listening to his speech. I guess we'll find out after we start launching against them.
Muslims are forbidden to kill other Muslims. So like the unemployed dropping off the rolls and becoming non-citizens, ISIS must be declared non-Muslims so they can be blown to bits. Typical government thinking.
That crazy bitch has bats flying out her pussy......
I move we make 9/11 a national holiday. We can call it "Fear Day".
All in favor?
"Bullshit Day" has more gravitas...
Bullshit Terrorism Fear Day ( BTFD )
FBI Whistleblower: Pentagon, CIA, NATO and MI6 Were Masterminds Behind 9/11
When we are providing them arms, we obviously have the ability to deal with their leadership without any issues.
When we are in attack mode, they become an amoeba.
Yeah, I saw Boner on the telescreen yesterday all puffed up like he finally grew a pair. You could see the gleam in his eye like a kid on Christmas morning. Enough to make an awake person gag...
He should refrain from mixing steroids with vodka
Keep the fear alive.
Her portfolio is prob stuffed with raytheon, boeing, ge, halle-burton, and so on.
it'll be old news in a couple years when US dollar hegemony comes to an end. all of this is just noise. im going back to sleep
Let's take a peek to see who the Wizard is behind the curtain...
Anyone???
Hint: He's got horns...
Idiots ruling idiots!
Yep... "Idiocracy" has become reality!
9/11 False Flag Operation: HUGE Tipping Point As State-Sponsored Terrorism Is Exposed
The two congresswomen quoted in this article are stark raving insane. 911 is part of their world, because they live in the bubble know as Washington D.C.
In my neck of the woods there were no public remembrances or displays. It is forgotten. Except, of course, for the MSM which few people watch anymore.
I drove down the east coast in late September 2001. Overpasses were festooned with flags and other items all the way down 95 to D.C. As soon as I hit Dixie, it ended. Completely. Not another display of 911 propaganda.
That was late September, 2001.
9/11 False Flag Attacks Used As Pretext By USA/UK/EU To Terrorize The World
Its a huge money maker inside the beltway
What state are you in? I live in South Carolina and every single overpass on my 20 mile journey down the interstate had flags. The overpass at my exit was manned by half a dozen bikers and a mom who lost her son fighting in Iraq. My little town flew flags at half mast and had a little ceremony.
I get what you're trying to say, but I'm not sure we should forget. 911 was the beginning of the end. It's when the political class finally had a pivot point to completely shred our rights willy nilly instead of the piecemeal approach that preceded 9/11. Its what led to the killing of thousands of our soldiers who went to fight a war based on lies by the same politicians we somehow still elect into office over and over again. I spent the morning with a bunch of vets who've been sent home into a "stellar" economy but can't find jobs, plagued with mental trauma, who are killing themselves at an alarming rate. I spent a day earlier in the week getting groped by goons in royal blue shirts and dime-store badges who didn't even find my knife I carry with me every single time I fly.
Was looking at Sept. 11th on my calendar. It was labeled "Patriot Day". What a crock of shit. That's such a mindfuck. It doesn't make you a patriot to get burned the fuck up and/or crushed in an exploding building. Maybe they were referring to that "Let's roll" bullshit. Anyway, made me ill to see that on the calendar. I scribbled over it heh.
Aye! And can I please, please, please lead the Two Minutes Hate?
Reichstag day
I actually heard NPR floating a trial balloon of calling it "Patriot Day!" WTF??
Which "crazy beeaach"? How does one tell them apart?
Edit: In response to Doc.
Muslims have been killing other Muslims for centuries because of the various factions. It's like saying "If it wasn't for all the murders, the Middle East would be the most peaceful region in the world". It just struck me as very odd, and still does, that Obama declared that ISIS was not Islamic. I agree that its typical government thinking, but why so obvious now?
Does the general Muslim world agree with Obama? What about Saudi Arabians who are very closely tied to ISIS? Turkey isn't going to help the US. Iran? I don't think so. The UAE - niet. Maybe I'm reading too much into Obamas speech but I found it to be very chilling.
I agree Sloane. I was just being facetious. I am also curios as to why he kept calling them ISIL.
I'm hardly a fan of NPR, but this pretty good:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/09/12/347711170/isis-isil-or-islamic-state-whats-in-a-name
Mere propaganda, as always.
Thanks, Spastica, that helped.
I've noticed that and I don't know why ISIS was morphed into ISIL by most of the adminstration. I will prolly have to google it later, but it did seem odd at the time as well.
Edit: [see Spastica's post and link]
BTW, I think this little link is worth a ZH story by itself. Check out what Arizona State and the University of Maryland have picked up.
http://chronicle.com/article/Table-The-Equipment-117/148753/
That's some 9/11 thinking for you.
Yale got a shit load of stuff, but this one item should really concern us!
Yale U. Police Department---- Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction Kit
ISIS is already spoken for! C'mon in, the clusterfsck is great!
>>not muslim
he is trying to get countries like Turkey involved in the bombings, and doesn't want any negative "this is a new crusade" type gaffs that Bush made in the Iraq wars... that said, both Sunni and Shiite Muslim scholars have loudly proclaimed that ISIS is not following Islamic teachings, which shouldn't be a surprise given that ISIS is a psy-op created by team zato from the beginning.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/muslim-leaders-worldwide-condemn-isis/5397364
as an additional bonus, this sort of statement from obama sends americans into a state of vertigo, which certainly helps undermine obama further, backing him into a corner (war is the only way out).
This insistence that the middle east is NOT a Muslim war is the biggest gaffe of the last 25 years or more. Insisting it's not a Muslim thing while Sunnis and Shiites splinter off and kill each other, and every foolish enough to get involved, is the height of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results...
Either stay out ( my preference), or pick a side, sunni or shia, and play to win.
I don't think Obama has ever said "ISIS". Obama seems to always say, "ISIL”.
ISIL = Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
That is because ISIS = Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and Obammy certainly doesn't want to emphasize the Syrian part of that equation.
“I’m glad people have this 9/11 mentality again.”
Translation:
"I'm glad people are living in constant fear so that we in government can be their protectors."
"I'm glad people are then willing to fund the military-industrial complex with their tax dollars."
"I'm glad people are so fearful that they will give up their freedom for just a wee bit of security."
"I'm glad people will re-elect those of us who support an ever burgeoning government security apparatus."
I have been unable to track down this quote. When I looked it up, the source is listed as InfoWars, but then that links to the same article that is printed here. And nowhere in this article is the true source of the quote given. Was this stated in Congress? To a constituent? At a town hall?
I want context. Don't get me wrong; these people are lizards. I agree. But we need to be careful to hold our own information to higher standards than that of the media these alternative blogs so readily condemn.
I'm more worried about this:
"Detroit Police Investigate Bloody Scene Where 8 People Shot, 2 Killed In Apparent Family Feud After Prayer Vigil"Yep, modern day (Javaonion) Hatfields and (D'Brickashaw) McCoys, DETROIT STYLE!!!!
There was a real cheap and nasty strip club somewhere in Vegas years ago called Little Darlings. This Michele lunatic wouldn't have looked out of place there.
Gross, William, but oh so on target. +10 as always if I could.
Congress turned into such a court of Jesters. Fucking amazing. An ounce of dignity in DC goes for twice the price of gold.
fucking ass clowns
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is one major league Zionist Piece of Shit. It's beyond me how the people of Miami keep voting this Vermin back into office time & time again. I can only dream of watching her arrested, tried, convicted & executed for War Crimes, Crimines Against Humanity & Crimes Against The Amercain People.
Chilling to think this Pig chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa. It's only to continue the PsyOp, False Narratives & Propaganda scripts handed to her by her Controllers. It's Sickening.
She is jewish from Cuba... here is a Wikipedia link... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana_Ros-Lehtinen Scroll to the botton of the page and you will find "American people of Cuban-Jewish descent"
...hubba hubba, smelt out a jew, hubba hubba...
PRICK!!
Sounds like a lovely multi-cultural LGBT family who also likes to war monger.
Ileana Ros y Adato was born in Havana, Cuba, one of two children born to Enrique Ros, now a Cuban American businessman and anti-Fidel Castro activist, and his wife, Amanda Adato. The family emigrated to the United States when Ileana was seven years old. She received her Bachelor of Arts in education and her Master of Arts in educational leadership from Florida International University. She attended the University of Miami where she earned a Ph.D in higher education.[5]
Ros-Lehtinen was raised Catholic and is now an Episcopalian.[5][6] Ros-Lehtinen's maternal grandparents were Sephardic Jews, originally from the Ottoman Empire, who had been active in Cuba's Jewish community.[7] Her maternal grandfather left the city of K?rklareli for Cuba in 1913, fleeing the devastation and economic collapse caused by the First Balkan War.[8] Her mother later converted to Catholicism to marry her father.[7][9]
Ros-Lehtinen was an educator and the owner/operator of a private school in Miami-Dade County.[10] She was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1982, where she met State Representative Dexter Lehtinen (D-Miami). They married on June 9, 1984, after Dexter switched parties. They both served in the State House until 1986. That year, they were both elected to the Florida Senate, where he was elected to District 40 and she was elected in District 34.[11][12] In 1988, Dexter Lehtinen resigned his seat to become U.S. Attorney of South Florida. In 1989, Ros-Lehtinen resigned her seat to become a U.S. Representative.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has two children, Rodrigo (born Amanda), a transgender LGBT rights activist, and Patricia Marie. She is also step-mother to Katherine and Douglas Lehtinen.
How MANY religions are you allowed to "convert" into before someone sees you as an opportunist/hypocrite?
Her primary campaign contributor is listed under "Pro-Israel" in OpenSecrets...
I am sure that has no influence...
Did you hear Joe Biden's recent declaration?: "I am a Zionist. "You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ZIJdN05QE
Wow. Thank you so much for that. Conspiracy theory number 52 can be checked off the list as fact now. We are being run by the insane, and there is no longer any need in their mind to hide it.
Exactly. Propaganda is the new reality, facts are all now conspiracy theories.
But still a retard first though.
Wow! That right there, that's one of my biggest personal hurdles to get over.
from the man who voted for obama
good thing there is no terror threat, right mike
you waiting for another beheading
Keep living in fear. The boogie man is just outside your door.
so there has been no terorism? no beheadings? no war?
put your head back under the pillow
I have an idea..... we stop fucking with the middle east and stop indiscriminately killing people and they can kill each other.
go have lunch with a jihadi - be nice to them
You sound like a Jihadist.
Keep supporting the MIC and their phony war on terror and let me know how the resulting police state works out for you.
How does it feel to know that the giant security apparatus that has been put into place would not stop terrorist attack if there were a few people who had some brains planning it?
Statistically speaking we are more likely to be shot dead by an American police officer than killed by a terrorist.
Just something to think about while considering risk in the US.
This I understand. Now, how much does have we spent on that giant security apparatus?
What we need is the government to set up another giant security apparatus to protect us from the one that currently exists! Only then would the government truly be able to protect us!
What we have done is create this situation.
We've overturned or supported the overturn of Egypt with the brotherhood.... We did overturn Lybia... We're about to overturn Assad and, We overturned Iraq.... We're in a battle in the Ukraine for.... overturning an elected government..... We haven't been the good guys in a long time.
In every case we left it in chaos and then as a result, Islamists ( or Russians ) took over and are on the march... and, we're about to go from really bad to a lot worse.
Who will fill the vacuum after Assad is gone? Or will we do something even more stupid and attempt to nation build?
I don't like to use the words "U.S. interest"
That's why I wish other critics, friends of ours would stop saying
"We go into this country, we go into that country. We do this, we do that".
We don't do things, they do it to us.
We are part of the victims, we aren't part of the victimizers.
Michael Parenti, from Choking Victim's Fuck America
Don't go where they like to chop heads off and you won't be at risk. Is it really that damn hard to figure out?
Lee Rigby was walking down a London Street. Just sayin.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-k-soldier-lee-rigby-s-gruesome-beheading-...
Yes, because England most certainly must be a civilized country rather than an archaic Police State. This tells me that you don't know many people from England, or London for that matter. Most of them are violent statists.
What's that supposed to mean? Was he beheaded in London or not. Don't be a dickwad. He was beheaded by Muzzies, statists are all pussies.
If you don't want to get beheaded by crazies, no matter the religious affiliation, don't go where the crazies are at or can thrive. It's honestly that fucking simple, and that was my point from the first post.
London is not civilized, if they were they wouldn't have cameras on every corner and outlaw self-defense. If self-defense is illegal, then the territory is not civilized.
No your point was that they only behead you in the ME. I think you're a pussy too Nidstyles. I'd rape you if given the chance.
the london beheading was as fake as two bullshit beheadings in Iraq.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=71604
Globalism has a dark side -and it isn't merely economic.
Don't import foreign problems and they won't be domestic problems.
You lock your car and house and open your borders and markets?
Expect unwanted 'guests' and things not to be as/where they were when you turn around.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) who decided to see if she could take crazy to a whole other level
Isn't that her sole purpose in life???? To be a propaganda whore while living off of fees generated from people who are on the public dole?
V Oh, you voted for for her?
Picking on Republican women, tsk, tsk.
bachman didnot create ISIS
Fucking imbecile
go to syria and call them names
What is your address there in Syria? I will drop in.
You see, I am calling you a fucking imbecile. Not Syrians
If you had any respect for a people you would at least capitalize their name.
John McCain is on ZH now?
It's just not the same without the wild stare and clenched teeth.
Granted, but she supported the Obama administration and the MIC while they did so.
.
She voted for the appropriation that funded ISIS.
An argument can be made that John McCain certainly helped them along...
Stupid knows no affiliation.
And the person who down arrowed me proves my point!
@ Spastica
Both of these "Republican women" should be arrested for supporting terrorism. Isn't that what we do with people who support terrorists and terrorist organizations? Yet here they are, openly and stupidly and gleefully supporting whatever apparatus you want to call it for causing Americans to live in fear. It is anathema to me that either of them would ever step foot in any politcal gathering again, let alone pretend to "work' for the people. Disgusting.
Honest to God, and I don't take that lightly, if they were both arrested I would begin to believe that all of those supposed safeguards scaffolded around Americans would actually be protectionist and not designed to keep us in line and afraid.
I just want to add that I would probably be classified as a conservative who has not had anyone to vote for in a long time and shed my Republican affiliation the last time I went to vote and found there was absolutely no one I could vote for with a clear conscience.
Let the red arrows rain down, I give not a shit anymore......and, I need a nice cold beer.
Amen Sloane. You and I share the same sentiment.
I was just being droll; you know, like, "That's racist."
I'm an equal opportunity hater.
The Islamic State have declared war against the infidel, they have declared war against the U.S.
Can you read Congresswoman?
ISIS: The jihadist movement stamped “Made in America”The fact remains, however, that the US, the major European powers, and their regional allies all previously lent financial, military and political support to ISIS and similar groups, which have “Made in the USA” stamped all over them. They have, until now, played a significant part in Washington’s efforts to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, as part of a broader effort to gain control of the region’s vast energy resources and transit routes.
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/30/isis-j30.html
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
send mike to syria to do some real reporting
200000 murdered last 3 years
Yeah, and no one cares about Tattooine except for the war mercenaries who profit off of it.
We should probably drop some humanitarian bombs on them.
Too bad atomics were banned by the Great Convention.
Why don't you go NOTW777?
i am not in denial - you seem to think its all a fairy tale
Your delusions are obvious with that re-direct. Quit assuming you know anything about anyone's position or experience.
WTF are you writing about. You have no knowlege of my beliefs.
...nevermind
I like the way Bachmann eats corn dogs. That's some good eats.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=michele+bachmann+corn+dog&qpvt=michelle+bachman+corn+dog&FORM=IGRE
Thats some "Good Old Fashion CornDawgHo"...
I'm gonna put some mustard on my penis and pay her a visit!
That might sting?
What's the downside?
Her mouth would be on your cock
Well played Sir, I have come to my senses...I think..
They all like the long one. Just ask Rick.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PkYx1UNt5do/TmY3pZeW8oI/AAAAAAAAALE/CAAayKNfLi...
Well at least he wasn't leading with his teeth?
Just sayin.
pods
Send that pic to Barry and Texas would get extra funding.
Too funny. First time I've seen that picture. At least he doesn't have the crazy lazy eyes liks Bachman.
Lost a keyboard on that one! Thanks!
Yeah. The way her eyes roll back in her head wile she's stuffin' that fucker half way down her throat is awesome.
When... when will people finally wake up and understand the fact that the asholes in Washington are the damn enemy? Fuck, this is frustrating. Everybody in this office is waiting for the red team to get in the office and "fix "everthing. I feel like I'm beating my head against the wall talking to them.
Never. They are just as fucked up and kept stupid by the libtard education system. The masses have no clue the 2 party system is really one party. Look at how 90% of congress votes they have no core values. My "teaparty" rep voted to fund the NSA last year.
You assail the two-party system, yet you then refer to our education system as "libtard". You don't see how you contradicted yourself there, do you? Of course, you don't.
We don't have a liberal education system. We have a statist education system, modeled after the Prussian education system. Do your homework next time before you discuss issues you don't fully understand.
Liberal/progressive and statist/totalitarian are synonymous.
Where, oh WHERE, did you learn THAT?
Being a liberal doesn't mean you are a progressive, and vice-versa. And there are plenty of so-called conservatives who are nothing but dyed-in-the-wool statists/totatlitarians.
Why am I wasting my time typing this? You won't be swayed by anything I write. My political science education really was a waste of my time and money. Learnin' is for other people, not Americans.
Please enlighten us with a distinction here. </no sarc>
We have an education system that is about to collapse in my state. Teachers are leaving and not being replaced. They're being given unobtainable goals measured in incomprehensible ways while simultaneously being loaded down with more bureaucratic duties than they can meet while the bureaucrats bicker and play petty political games.
That sound like my gig and I'm in the private sector!
Yeah, like Bridging The Achievement Gap. Good luck with that.
Here are the rank and file rEpublikan supporters yakking about the evil Russians invading Ukraine.
Newsweek Europe Exclusive: Russian Soldiers Reveal the Truth Behind Putin's Secret War
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3203025/posts?q=1&;page=1
The dEmokrats are just as bad, but they're still busy celebrating Obama's awesome ACA victory. If there ever is another civil war in USSA there will have to be like 50 teams. Every body hates everybody who hates everyone else. Divided and conquered.
Don't beat your head. Your gonna need it later. Those die hard Fox News/Tea Baggers will stay the course. Let them believe their own shit. Never once when i am around these types do they mention or understand the monetary whoring currently going on OR how it was created and the rape and damage it is causes them, their families and themselves. They are fixed like sheep, no different then blue teams fixation. Fuck them,period.
I know a lot of Americans in senior executive and academic positions who are totally clueless. They buy the narrative hook line and sinker.
Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.
Nuttier than a Squirrel turd.
~ That is all~
name calling -
Fact Stating... When are you going to get it? There's them, (DC) and there's us.
something very off behind these eyes:
http://theweek.com/article/index/218086/newsweeks-crazy-eyes-michele-bac...
too much prozac?
Here's another scary shot. Would the real Michele Bachmann please step forward?
Colonel Mustard, with a corn dog, front door
Eyes going 'Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter...'
"Corn dog in back door"
Oh yeah Mike?...
I've got some military bases to take you to round out your "survey"...
They'll be holding up posters that say something like this -
"I didn't join the military to fight for ISIS/ISIL/FSA/Al-Qaeda" in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Ukraine"!
The only way your report will be valid is if we have another 9/11 and that means a REAL INVESTIGATION!!! In the imortal words of the last President and what he had to say shortly after the first 9/11 you may recall...
"Fool me once... Shame on... We're not gonna get fooled again!!!!! G.W. Bush
Worthless corrupt politicians always need windmills to joust against.
Dianne Feinstein one of the first to label Snowden a traitor and such ... and then had the gall to be pissed when it turned out NSA spying on Senate.
haha
She's a mixed bag of stupid and deception. She want's guns, those bad bad guns.
The low IQ voter needs elects people that speak their language. Blame the education system all you want but the bell curve exists and the republic has devolved into democracy.
Low IQ Voters are WHY democracy cannot produce sustainable growth, stability, or peace; -no matter how well intentioned that Low IQ Electorate is.
People who advocate direct democracy are only advocating for a government run by grade-school intellect. There has to be a thresh-hold for franchise or all manner of outrageous ignorant bullshit and unfullfilled childish desires will take precedence over policy governance the entire process will become a schoolyard exorcise in bullying and popularity contests...
The "free Press" that was the watch dog of democracy was the first to be subverted.
Don't know if it was the first, but without a doubt it is by far the most dangerous. As long as people believe what they are shown on their brainwashabox and take that to be reality, we are well and truly fucked. More and more are waking up, though.
DiFi sure ain't stupid but her acting skills leave much to be desired.
If i recall correctly wasnt snowden the whistleblower inside operative false narative of the Network 1976 movie?
It was a while ago...
RIPS
If we just blow up the entire world, wouldn't that eliminate any current/potential terrorist threats?
Think of all the broken windows...
There's always you!
“I’m glad people have this 9/11 mentality again.”
Because nothing propels the belief that we need the government to be our Mommy and Daddy in every respect, all the time than a permanent state of emergency.
Imagine how terrible it would be if we actually achieved victory (such an outdated concept) over our enemies or arranged our affairs so that they weren't a significant threat in the first place.
Now, if only we can kick the permanent War On The Weather into high gear...
>> Imagine how terrible it would be if we actually achieved victory
Buddy, that's never going to happen. The "war on terror" will never end by design. It's as likely to happen as the DEA going "you know, we looked at pot again and decided it shouldn't be a Class A substance. Our bad, sorry." Never going to happen.
You have mother-fucking Congressmen saying "they're glad the 9/11 mentality is back." They want you to be afraid and obedient. In perpetuity.