allanwstewart
Mood:  irritated
Now Playing: Government at its finest
In the late 90's, when President Clinton ordered US fighter-bombers to attack Iraq, ostensibly because Hussein had expelled UN weapons inspectors from his country. The "surgical strikes" of Operation Desert Fox, like previous and subsequent campaigns, maimed and killed defenseless Iraqi civilians. Meanwhile, virtually every news outlet ran pictures of grinning US seamen painting "Happy Ramadan" on the missiles destined for Baghdad.

When these kinds of indescretions blatantly shown 200 times a day by two hundred different media outlets- someone is going to take offense. When we are mocking a country filled to the teeth with radicals- something like 9-11 or even worse can be expected. This means Homeland Security, and other government agencies invlolved should anticipate attacks of this magnitude, and have some solid protocol to follow.

The recent National Geographic 9-11 documentary that aired last week highlighted negligence at its greatest from every Government office from the Whitehouse to FEMA. I feel less secure now knowing that the Patriot Act strips away citizen rights, and only empowers terrorists.

The point I'm trying to convey is that the US government needs to better allocate its resources where they need to go, instead of spending 100's of millions dollars on programs and offices that are ineffective. Like the war on drugs in America.