More OT from the Vortex

[John Erickson <hombre@elp.rr.com>]

What a foolish thing it was to have done this to America. Utterly foolish, 
and an action which will spell doom for their movement internationally. I 
will not be specific, because we are not sure..though it appears that Arabs
were perpetrators of these acts.

At heart, Americans are isolationists. We are children of a nation with two 
oceans protecting us from Europe and Asia. This continued ambivalence is 
why America often appears to struggle in international forums...we don't 
want to be the world's policeman. We don't really care. We hope nations can 
come to some agreement, we assist the regional organizations, we shower 
economic aid on a region, and we wait and watch, and we do business with 
everyone in the meantime.

When forced, we will take greater part in a region (like the peace treaty 
brokered by Carter between Egypt and Israel) But just as quickly we will 
return to our self-centered ways.  We are, however, capable of sustained 
and irrestible action when, as a collective nation, we deem a threat 
significant. Slow to achieve a critical mass...but once we are in motion, 
we are unstoppable. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, America built a navy, 
trained an army, invented amphibious assaults, and clawed her way across 
thousands of islands in the pacific, rooting Japan out...not once did we 
question the value of the war. Exotic places like Guadacanal, Iwo Jima, the 
Marshall islands, Guam, Okinawa...names of places never heard of or cared 
for by Americans suddenly became valuable enough to send off our sons to. 
All for vengeance, all to avenge a horrible wrong.

When the specter of Communism loomed over the world, the US responded in 
kind, first with turning her economy into a factory of war, then through 
the Marshall Plan rebuilding Western Europe (as well as Japan). As quickly 
as we hated, we made up. Germany and Japan, moral enemies in the 40's, 
became close allies mere years later. With the "death" of the USSR, 
Americans saw the disappearance of a threat...and we returned to our inward 
view.

So what have the terrorists accomplished? They dragged Americans out of our 
lazy slumber. They hit America in the way she has only been hit once 
before...and in a way we vowed never to be hit again. Congratulations, you
now have the greatest power in the history of this wretched species seeing 
blood. You now have aligned limitless resources, a vast military, and the 
global superpower onto a laser-tight goal; your utter destruction. Rest 
assured, America will not go back to business as usual. We will not just 
hope the parties work things out. No, this global cop has unsheathed his 
billy club....and to paraphrase Theodore Roosevelt...take a look at the 
size of my god dam stick.

In 1899, terrorists blew up the US battleship Maine (the Maine and the 
Texas were the first two battleships commissioned by the US Navy) this 
occurred in Manila Bay. Although never certain, it appeared that Spanish 
operatives committed this act. A sleepy US awoke from its slumber, shouting 
"Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain." Admiral Dewey proceeded to sail a 
US fleet into Manila Bay, sinking the Spanish fleet. The US proceeded to 
dismantle 350 years of Spanish Imperial holdings. We did not stop till the 
Spanish flag was swept from the hemisphere. This was over one ship. What do 
you think will happen to you? The US will no longer take a laizze-fair 
approach to the middle east...with this attack we are justified in forcing 
our own agenda...and we will do so at the point of the greatest military in 
history.

You are dead, your movement is dead. There is no one in the world who can 
dare look us in the eye and refuse the righteous might of these United 
States. Already the Taliban, Libya, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Iran all deny
participation, and are looking for the parachutes as their planes screech 
flaming toward the Earth. These statements are from groups which gladly 
damned America in the press for decades. They changed their tune because 
they know what has happened. It is easy to ridicule the shark when you are 
on the beach...but now you are in the water...and we taste blood.

Cheers to the Israelis. Now when they attack a Palestinian position, they 
attack not just for themselves, but for us as well. Do you see what has 
happened? We care, we are paying attention, and this time, we will not get 
lazy and turn away. Now, you are our priority. We have awaken from our 
slumber...and our hunger can only be satiated by your flesh. 280 million 
voices cry as one...and they will be answered. The average American once 
didn't care...now, he knows the pain and loss caused by you.

America comes for you, infidels. Bow before your god and beg for 
mercy...because you will find none here. 


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