Rummy: the farther we get from 9/11, the solidarity by Americans during the period dissipates

[sabra]

http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=3336

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But in the years since, there have been no big land, sea or air battles that grab the attention of the American people, Rumsfeld said. The battle against a shadowy enemy is much more complex and less familiar than any conflict America has been involved with before, he explained.

He said the United States has also been fortunate that there hasn’t been another attack on the scale of Sept. 11 in the country. The farther removed some people get from the events of Sept. 11, the more the cohesion and solidarity the American people felt during that period dissipates, Rumsfeld said.

Part of the reason this feeling has dissipated is because there have been no more attacks in the United States. There have been terror attacks in other parts of the world – Madrid, London, Bali and Russia, to name just a few.

The war on terror, Rumsfeld said, is like the Cold War. During the Cold War, public opinion ebbed and flowed. “Millions of people demonstrated against the United States, not against the Soviet Union,” he said. “They acted as if the Soviet Union wasn’t one of the most repressive regimes in history. People were granting moral equivalence to the Soviet Union – a vicious dictatorship – in the free countries of Western Europe and the United States. People can drift off.”

[HereSince1628]

1. owing to getting over the stampede the Bushies' promoted.

Too bad that so many went over the cliff edge first.

[lectrobyte]

2. Does it ever occur to Rumsfeld that our solidarity and cohesion

were pissed away for a pack a lies when they decided to invade Iraq?

[Fierce]

3. Telling people to go shopping

doesn't really breed solidarity.

[liberal N proud]

4. He goes down swinging crying the 9/11 mantra

They misused the trust America put in the following 9/11.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Prolly all the fake Terra Lerts

That Tom Ridge admitted to doing.

[sharp_stick]

6. Right Rummy

I guess it has nothing to do with the fact that you and your boss lied us into a useless war that still gets dozens of our kids killed every week. I hope this POS is haunted until the day he dies by the those he's killed.