The Weakness of the Neo-cons

September 11, 2001 was a terrible day. The US was dealt it's most serious blow ever. It was more serious than Pearl Harbor, it was more serious than the Civil War, it was more serious than the great depression, the Cold War or any other hardship this nation has gone through. We were hit at the wrong time, when we had weakness in our government, and as such have lost our identity.

The FISA act was not written in more innocent times. In fact it is just the opposite. We didn't fear people flying a plane into a building, we feared nuclear missiles dropping from the sky. As bad as 9/11 was, facing another attack like that is nothing compared to full scale nuclear war. We were stronger as a people then. We were able to stand up and say "We are going to stick to our principles."

We once had a madman with an arsenal of WMD's to rival our own stand before the UN General Assembly and tell us "We will bury you." Yet we had a strength of character in the White House, and we stuck to our principles. Because of that persistence, we won the cold war.

Today we have the Patriot Act, illegal NSA wiretapping, the suspension of habeas corpus as well as a host of other civil liberties issues. We have a government that relies on "secret evidence", confessions taken under extreme duress and ghost detainees. Because we have abandoned our principles, we have already lost the War on Terror.