Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed America. You hit the Pentagon, but you
missed America. You used helpless American bodies, to take out other American bodies, but like
a poor marksman, you STILL missed America.
Why? Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn't about a building or
two, not about financial centers, not about military centers, America isn't about a place, America
isn't even about a bunch of bodies. America is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go
someplace where you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for the most part, like
you envisioned living, and pursue Happiness. (No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure
try!)
If you're free enough.
Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an unfortunate image to project
to the world, but it comes of feeling free and easy about the world you live in. It's unfortunate too,
because people start to forget that when you attack Americans, they tend to fight like a cornered
badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812, was when England burned Washington D.C. to
the ground. Didn't turn out like England thought it was going to, and it's not going to turn out like
you think, either. Sorry, but you're not the first bully on our shores, just the most recent.
No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either. We were the FIRST and so far, only
country in the world to use nuclear weapons in anger. Horrific idea, nowadays? News for you
bucko, it was back then too, but we used it anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and
we used 'em both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan Project. Told me once, that right up
until they threw the switch, the physicists were still arguing over whether the Uranium alone would
fission, or whether it would start a fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But they
threw the switch anyway, because we had a War to win. Does that tell you something about
American Resolve?
So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to point to some real estate, like the good old
days. Unfortunately, we're probably at war with random camps, in far-flung places. Who think
they're safe. Just like the Barbary Pirates did, IIRC. Better start sleeping with one eye open.
There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come to this country, looking for opportunity,
looking for liberty, looking for freedom. Even if they misuse it. The Marielistas that Castro emptied
out of his prisons, were overjoyed to find out how much freedom there was. First thing they did
when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The ones that didn't end up dead, ended up
in prisons. It was a big PITA then (especially in south Florida), but you're only the newest PITA,
not the first.
You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that we don't live in America, America lives in
US! American Spirit is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us,
won't change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're crossed
in a cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different kind of Spirit.
Wait until you see what we do with that Spirit, this time.
Sleep tight, if you can. We're coming!