Quote Originally Posted by higher4hockey
so we should all just sit back and wait for the next attack on america and then when thousands more americans die at the hands of terrorists...we'll just invite them to america and sign them up for welfare?

some of the 'i dont give a fuck' attitudes i see today really dissapoint me.
To be honest, we could pay welfare for the entire population of Iraq for less than this war is costing. And this war isn't about oil either. All of the oil in Iraq is worth less than the cost of this war. This war is about stupidity and revenge.

The terrorists' attacks were very amateur. All they had to do was hijack a few planes and crash them into stuff. Now, as anyone who has gotten in a plane recently can attest to, airport security is ridiculously tight. We patched that hole.

Politicians are whipping up fear in the populace. They know that if you are afraid, you will give them all the power they want. And somehow, they managed to get half the country scared of some disorganized cultists on the other side of the world. It baffles me.

I feel very powerless writing this. I can give every reason in the world that this war is pointless and beneficial to no one, but it's of no use. As long as there are people who give more weight to their primal fears than they do to reason, we will never learn.