In his weekly radio address just prior to the orgy of memorializing on September 11, 2011, president Obama boasted that “They wanted to terrorize us, but, as Americans, we refuse to live in fear.”
How long are we going to deceive ourselves that that is true? You may have read about the panic aboard an airplane on September 11 when some passengers were reported by their fellow passengers to have acted suspiciously. Now read the account of one of those people who was deemed to have been acting strangely.
Home of the brave, indeed.
The US govt spends 28% of revenue on defense. The shell of a typical sea turtle is about 28% of its total mass. It seems we are about as brave as a turtle.