Is Safe Dangerous?

1-9-09

Did Bush/Cheney, the Lilliputians of leadership, keep us safe? There have been no tsunamis, no killer earthquakes, no meteor strikes, no flesh-eating microbes, and no terrorist attacks on American soil since 9/11 (whoops – there was that nettlesome gal named Katrina!). So if you choose to believe that B/C 43 had no responsibility for our safety prior to September 12, 2001, they get a big high five. But left-leaning intellectuals suggest that there were tea leaves (“teach me to fly, but I’m not interested in learning to land”)  that were readable by those with their eyes on the ball instead of Saddam’s neck.

If you feel no danger from the more than 70,000 uninspected containers that arrive from abroad each day, then why not move to a prosperous port city? If you believe that not one of the  500,000 immigrants who enter our country illegally each year poses a terrorist threat to our safety, then Arizona and Texas await your arrival.  If you think the Bush-smitten Second Amendment junkies whose homes are adorned by AK-47’s pose no threat to you or your new president, then why not go hunting with Dick Cheney?

Finally, if you feel that a nation plummeting into an advanced state of economic collapse is safer than the one that began atrophying from neglect on January 20, 2001,  then your picture deserves a place in a book published annually by Merriam-Webster under the entry “self-delusional”.