As a direct contrast to those calling for a more peaceful response than what will ultimately be enacted, we have Andrew Sullivan.

"The terrorists have done the rest. The middle part of the country - the great red zone that voted for Bush - is clearly ready for war. The decadent left in its enclaves on the coasts is not dead - and may well mount a fifth column."

Here we have a man who feels compelled less than a week after the two largest buildings in the world are destroyed to start drawing political lines around the country. He predicts the reactions of the country will fall along the lines of who voted for whom in November. He assumes we're all as pathetically programmed as he is. All of us are mindless drones spouting ideology fed to us, lacking thought and devoid of analysis.

Sullivan tells us, "America has never been wealthier, and is at the end of one of the biggest booms in its history." Why is it wealthy you fool? Where is the wealth? Where are the factories that will build the arms for your, "US military presence in the Middle East [to] be ramped up rapidly, its intelligence overhauled, its vigilance heightened." They are in the cities. The blue cities. Where are the people that will enlist in the army and fight the terror? Where are the homes that, "the barbarians who would annihilate every Jew on the planet" will attack? They are in the cities of America, on the coasts. East and West. North and South. In the blue regions that Sullivan now calls decadent. Apparently those of us 8 million who now walk to work in fear every day are decadent. We who were assaulted and lost our friends and family, who watched from blocks (not hundreds of miles) away as the Twin Towers collapsed, WE are the weak, the decadent, the shy.

WE WILL BE THE FIFTH COLUMN?????????????

Crawl back in your sewer you unpatriotic swine. We Americans have a job to do. We have to right the ship and sail it into danger. We don't wait for your company because you will run and hide, you will wait for instructions to spew your divisive filth. You, Falwell, Robertson and your ilk will not join the fight, will not build our arms or fight our battles. You will hide in your enclaves and opine whether we are righteous enough. When we have made the world safe again for people like you, we'll let you know. Until then just sit quietly and wait for instructions. Don't bother attempting to be patriotic, it insults those of us that are on the front lines, that are the targets.
- posted by levinson @ 9/17/2001 09:24:00 AM