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Can I tell you how much I LOVE my mother? She rocks. Below is an editorial followed by a freeper LTTE and then my mom's response to that letter....
Thompson: It's now just a matter of time, Bubba
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
And so we wait, second by inexorably advancing second, for what we now know, with horrible certitude, will come. Because one clear lesson emerged from Thursday's terrorist attack on London's public transit system, a set of bombings that left dozens dead and hundreds wounded.
We’re next. We don't know when. We don't know where. But we know we're next.
One wonders how the news from London is playing down deep in the hearts of the couch-potato commandos of this nation's proud Barcalounger Brigade, whose only involvement in the war on terror thus far has been firing off letters to the editor to pass on the Bush administration line that we're fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan so that we don't have to fight them here. How do those who have been fighting this war on the Fox News front feel now?
As of Thursday, two countries that helped form the U.S.-led coalition fighting in Iraq have domestic body counts in the terror war.
Are the brave troops manning the talk-radio barricades to defend the commander-in-chief ready now to rally behind Gen. Limbaugh and Col. Hannity and their .50-caliber microphones? Ready or not, they might just get their chance, without having to fret over the fact they're too old to enlist.
Because now, it's just like the little girl in the movie "Poltergeist" said: They're here.
Well, not here, exactly. But the terrorists have been to Madrid, and they've been to London. And it's a sucker's bet to think they won't be coming back to this country. Before too much longer, some of you six-pack-swilling sycophants will become victims in the war on terror. You're all on the front lines now, Bubba.
Tick.
Maybe you'll be aboard an airplane shot out of the sky by a terrorist crouched in the weeds somewhere near Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, shoulder-fired missile at the ready.
Tock.
Or you'll be on Washington's Metro, on the way to the nickel tour of the White House, when a bomb rips your railcar, and you, apart.
Tick.
Or you'll be at the Super Bowl. Or under the soaring stone arches of a cathedral on Christmas Eve.
Tock.
A blinding flash of explosive power is unleashed somewhere near you.
And you're dead.
And in the waning moments of your life, you'll realize your president did, in fact, lie to you.
At the May 27 U.S. Naval Academy commencement, the president said, "We are taking the fight to the enemy abroad, so we do not have to face them here at home." But Thursday's terrorist bombing makes it clear we will have to face the enemy here. And fighting here means dying here. Unfortunately, the likelihood of dying here is far higher than it should be, because this country has spent billions of dollars on a war that has done two things. It has fanned the flames of terrorists' zeal to take American lives, and it has squandered resources that would have been better used in securing this country's public transit systems and ports, instead of just its airports. The terrorists struck London the day after the city had been awarded the 2012 Olympics, as the G-8 summit began. Anybody care to guess which tick of the clock will mark their next appearance on these shores? What we might wake up to on the morning of Sept. 11, 2005? Because it is just a matter of time. And every second that ticks off the clock brings us just that much closer to that next reckoning, a reckoning for which we're not quite prepared, because our president tried to make us think it wouldn't come. His words are ringing a bit hollow now. They're being displaced by our growing attention to a couple of plainer sounds - sounds too straightforward to be half-truths, too simple to be lies.
Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.
(end of editorial)
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Thompson's column was 'pathetic' and 'ignorant'
Editorial page editor Jim Thompson's pathetic, liberal and totally ignorant column ("It's now just a matter of time, Bubba," July 10) is one reason I mark out the $1 contribution you wish to charge in order to send this garbage to our schoolchildren. Your column just confirms one more time how people like you would not recognize the truth if we found you under your rock and hit you in the head with it.
First of all, most of us Bubbas remember we are not waiting to be the next target of a terrorist attack, but that we have already been first. Surely someone must have told you about 9/11, where more than 3,000 innocent people were killed in this country by sick, slimy cowards who crashed planes loaded with people into buildings filled with other people. Many more died than in Spain and London, and this was long before the United States and its allies invaded Iraq.
The terrorists are less than human, Mr. Thompson. They are animals, and people of your ilk would prefer to slither under a rock and hide, hoping they won't find you. Lucky for all of you peace-loving liberals, we have plenty of generals, colonels, privates and a fantastic military machine to save your sorry butt and all your friends, just as they have always done.
And to answer one of your points, in the waning moments of your life, you will realize that if you had listened to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Fox News and all of us Bubbas, you wouldn't have to be under a rock because you would have heard the truth. If you don't wake up, that tick-tock, tick-tock you're hearing may be a time bomb next to your rock, placed there by the very people you thought you could hide from. God bless the United States of America and our freedom, and thank God for President George W. Bush.
(end of freeper rant)
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Mom's Response:
There were two ideas in Doris Patterson’s criticism of Jim Thompson’s editorial of July 10 that I found bothersome.
I have voted in presidential elections since 1964, and I suspect that like me, many Americans vote for the candidate and issues regardless of party affiliation. I have grown weary of the “leftist liberal” and “rightist conservative” rantings about many of the issues that divide our country these days. Opinions which are different from mine or Ms. Patterson’s are not necessarily “pathetic” or “ignorant”. They are just different opinions.
I take a “liberal” stance on some issues, and a “conservative” stance on others. I hope that I have also grown to be wise enough to realize that there are many issues that are too complicated to be defined in black or white, left or right, or red or blue terms. War and peace is two of those. Ms. Patterson’s disparaging use of the term “peace-loving liberals” is sad. I am bothered by those who think that only liberals could love peace. I have always believed that peace, be it between family members, neighbors, or nations, is a value that should be cherished by all people. I happen to be married to a “peace-loving liberal” who served in the U.S. Army for 20 years. God bless and save our World.
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