The Day After:

I didn't watch any of the 9/11 retrospectives yesterday.  It seems that most Americans do not really take the threat from Islam nearly as seriously as they should; but I don't fully comprehend the reaction of our government, either.  It would seem to me that we should be on a wartime footing as a nation.  We should be marshalling all the resources at our command to fight terrorism and the Islamic threat.  We should be educating our citizens about the true nature of the threat to our national security.  We should have basically the same relationship with governments like Syria and Saudi Arabia that we had with the Soviet Union during the Cold War and presumably as we have now with Iran.  In other words, our citizens should be made to realize that we are at war. 

 

Of course, none of us know what's going on behind the scenes.  Maybe there are actions being taken by our leaders that truly represent a wartime effort and approach.    It just seems to me that our way of life would have to change radically if we really approached this "war on terror" with the single-mindedness it seems to require.  Do we have the will to resist and to survive as a nation?  I think we will find out the answer to that question within the next few years.