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[PollyannaFlower46]

I think the country as a whole is in a heap of trouble. OAS, I remember wheb you asked on OA.com if people were ready to fight, and immediately after 9/11, it seemed as if everyone was, but its clear from reading people's responses as well as my every day interactions that the go out and kill the bad guys mentality has long faded. We're about to fight a fight unlike any other fought before, we fought facism and won, but religious fundamentalism is a harder war to wage...just look at the Crusades.

I think its very possible to beat the forces that need to be beaten, but its not going to be a war that is over quickly, but this is something the President warned us of. The problem is, in today's society of instant gratification, we've lost our ability to wait. Perhaps its a little ridiculous to compare war to a childhood story, but I remember the tale with the moral that slow and steady won the race....maybe its time to remind Americans that its not how fast it gets done, but its the accuracy that counts.

Every time there was a bomb that accidentally killed civilians in Afghanistan, anti-war people would be up in arms, where are they when our brothers and sisters are being killed by terrorists in other countries? Our American citizenship makes us targets in our own homes, and it makes us targets abroad, until the world once again learns America is not one to fuck with and the death of even one of its citizens will not be tolerated, none of us are safe.

Although I am unsure of Bush's individual abilities, he's surrounded himself with good people, and I have the utmost of faith in our military. We will win this war, we just have to be patient and try not to lose faith as easily as we all seem to.