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In 1993 - things got interesting. On home-soil, foreign-based attacks began to get some real attention. Previously the exclusive domain of embassy and military barrack attacks - domestic US bombings started with the World Trade Center car-bombing. But - this didn't fire the imagination of the US public or the government by-in-large because the attack was largely ineffective and was eventually played down by investigative reports that painted the whole mess as an mere extension of North-American Arabic nut-jobs with only cryptic ties to anything outside our borders. Those ties - seemed to be either confusing or so scattered that it didn't cause the US to even turn over in bed.
Then 9-11-2001. Bang. More civilians dead than the military in Hawaii. Dancing Arabs everywhere from Palestine to Afghanistan on American TV. This was one hell of a wake-up call, and forced a full-on reevaluation of what was going on in all parts of the middle-east. And anywhere else we might have ignored. Some of your run-of-the-mill pacifist types might have had the impression that Afghanistan was the end-game - and Al Quada is the only bogeyman we're targeting - but - right now - the show is just getting started.
You've now got a country - loaded with so many weapons that we don't even need to create a single job (outside of the homeland security offices) to support a wartime posture. We haven't even instigated a draft or reevaluated the age of conscription (an age barrier that has dwindled to the point that 34 year-old veterans with flight training and experience are barred from reenlisting, for example). We haven't had any rationing, we haven't had to change our buying habits, our gas-pumps are pumping, our SUVs are sucking, and the monetary supply is just as confusing as it was in Reagan's time.
Why talk sacrifice when we still have key-launched missiles capable of acquiring a target from thousands of miles away - from a boat whose crew-compliment doesn't even know where it's going to fly when fired (because the flight orders are satellite down linked direct from HQ). Missiles that still have "made in 1980" stamped on their side! We haven't seen an increase of job creation because we have 20 years of modern weapons waiting to be used, 50-plus years of nuclear-strike capability, and the only new items on the menu are GPS fins being retrofitted onto our current stockpile.
However, we - do - have a nebulous region of people really pissed off at us aka: living targets. I'm not going to get side-tracked by the legitimacy and grounds and grievances like most news outlets because - big secret - this doesn't have any bearing on what we're doing - and what we're going to do. The peace rallies make great camera for all the bored networks that want to show something that's unclassified in the world. But - it won't change the current course of actions by the Defense Department, the United States or anyone holding a weapon or pushing a button in North America.
Yep - all the editorials in the world, the talking heads on the networks, the emergency diplomatic meetings, the UN and me & my website will have exactly - "dick" - effect on US military and foreign policy for the next 20 years. Why? The United States - was attacked - on it's soil.
Think about that - because you don't hear it much in the media anymore.
"We" - "were" - "attacked" - "on" - "our" - "soil".
The last time foreign crap touched an actual US state - it was from a group of nut-jobs in Mexico at the turn of the previous century. We sent troops right into our neighbor without so much as an "excuse us have you seen a guy with a large goofy-looking hat?" telegram for the president of Mexico. Not even Japan actually set foot on a US state although their sniping at the West-Coast and balloon-bombs were curious diversions after the start of the war. And Germany only could land a few spies offshore that couldn't trust another enough to be of any consequence.
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