Two years ago today, terrorists brought their hate to our doorsteps and made us stare it in the face.
There are some who protest that taking the "War on Terror" overseas is a foolish waste of resources that should be used to improve Homeland Security... tightening our borders and beefing up security measures at points of entry.
Listen... it's not as if there aren't literally THOUSANDS of these murderers that are literally DYING to do the same thing. It's entirely due to President Bush's attacks on their leadership and support bases that they haven't done so in two years, combined with his diplomatic pressure on nations that support terror to change their ways. However, they're still out there... they have tried and will continue to try to murder as many American as as they can. It's all they want out of life.
And we CAN'T stop it by building higher walls and tighter security. We'll just be building ourselves a prison that way. And no matter HOW high we build, or HOW tight we make our security, all it will take is ONE suicidal maniac to start us on a new building frenzy.  No, the President is doing EXACTLY the right thing by taking the war to the terrorists.  They will not stop, and neither can we.  Would you rather fight that war in OUR streets, or theirs?

Why is it that Liberals and their pet political party, the Democrats, demand to know where to place the blame for 9/11, even accusing President Bush of not preventing it... until the blame trail leads back to Bill Clinton?  Then it's "oh, you can't talk about him, he's not President now".  Guess what?  He was President when al-Qaeda planned the 9/11 attacks. He was President when they attacked the USS Cole in 2000. He was President when they bombed US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998, bombed the Khobar Towers in 1996 and an Army base in Riyadh in 1995. He was President when they bombed the WTC the FIRST time in 1993.  And I STILL don't hear a single Democrat or Liberal asking why he didn't take bin Laden the dozen times he was offered him.  Mansoor Ijaz personally described three times the Sudanese offered bin Laden to Clinton to get on America's good side. Clinton refused.

"Mansoor Ijaz, now a New York City-based investment banker who traveled to Sudan more than a half dozen times in the mid-1990s, says he repeatedly relayed offers from the Sudanese government to the Clinton White House to share intelligence on bin Laden. In one case, the president of Sudan offered to arrest and extradite bin Laden and turn over information about global terrorist networks, Ijaz says.
The Clinton administration declined to take him up on the offer, Ijaz has argued in a Los Angeles Times commentary, in the pages of the January issue of the magazine Vanity Fair, and on national television shows."
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story123493.html

Shouldn't the first entry into this weblog be some overblown self-indulgent rant about myself, full of fascinating ideas about how one man's little online ranting will someday change the world?

Nah.

This is about what ticks me off, what gets my goat, or whatever metaphor you want to use to describe the feeling of frustration I get when I see some of the things happening in the news -- and NOT in the news.  You couldn't care less about the mundane details of my life... hell, I barely care myself.  I have been writing articles for Useless-Knowledge, but would rather retain the ability to let other people reprint or quote anything they like -- or hate -- with my permission.  Therefore, to business: what's annoying me today.

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