Reply #12: Well, I might reply...

[TreasonousBastard]

that my home is "sovereign, but if I dump my trash on my neighbors' lawns, shoot out their windows, steal their stuff, play bad music loudly 24 hours a day, and otherwise annoy, intimidate, or scare the bejeesus out of them, I owe them an apology, at the very least.

Japan, South Korea, China, and Europe are doing quite well for themselves, thankyouverymuch, and have far more experience in dealing with terrorism than we have, having far more terrorists interested in terrifying them than we have. Terrorism is rather new to us, and I don't see us doing any better at dealing with it than the British have with the IRA, the Spanish with the Basques, or the French with both the Basques and pissed-off Algerians. Then there were the Bader-Meinhof gang, the Red Brigades, and other fun groups they had to deal with over the years. Do we want to take the measures that Israel and China have taken? Measures that don't seem to work very well but do up the bodycount.

South America, Africa, and parts of Asia are in genuine turmoil, but most of it is thanks to us using them as pawns in the Cold War, or just wanting to steal their oil or bananas.

George Bush would be pumping gas somewhere between jail terms for barfights if he wasn't born with that silver foot in his mouth.

He is a useless, arrogant, ignorant putz, and with maybe 200 million people in this country eligible to be President, we do owe the world, and God, an apology for picking this bottomfish as our "leader."

And everyone who voted for him or supports him owes an apology to the rest of the country.