Are you scared?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The person who said that was Roosevelt. And he took on the Nazis. Any irony for you?

No irony. Roosevelt said that in 1933, about the Depression, not the Nazis. He said "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance"

What you are engaged in is unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes.

Lastly, Roosevelt didn't preemptively bomb Germany because they took the Rhineland in 1936. He didn't attack when they took the Sudetenland in 1938. In 1939, when they invaded Poland, the US declared neutrality. Roosevelt didn't declare war when Germany took France, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia. When London was being bombed, and Greece and Yugoslavia fell, he signed the Lend Lease Act, still not going to war. No, it was only in December of 1941, when we were actually attacked, that Roosevelt declared war.

And you think that Syria is a threat to our existence.

Roosevelt had courage. He did not throw us carelessly into war. He tried to avoid it and he bought us five years to deal with our own economic problems back home.

That has worked out very well for the U.S. For the rest of the world, not so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/obama-on-isil---we-don-t-have-a-strategy-yet-214309757.html

I'm SCARED. Very scared.

+1

President Obama’s remarks to the White House press corps Thursday were weak-kneed, meandering and confused, sending mixed messages both to America’s enemies and the American people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Like I said, I know for sure that one of the guys I called in was detained (and not released).

Troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fiscally conservative, socially liberal, strong national defense American Jew and I'm petrified for our country's safety given the political climate and lack of leadership in the White House.

If you are an Obama supporter, if you are apolitical (hard to reach these people since I'm posting on the politics board, I get it), if you are a strict Liberitarian against involvement abroad, are you scared for our future as a free country? Do you worry about groups like ISIS, Al Quaeda, Hamas, having influence over your life and liberties in the US? It is already happening in Europe.

Honestly I'm not looking for a debate. I'm just having a hard time seeing how things can get better for us under this administration.

Hamas has shown zero interest, evidentially and historically, in doing anything outside of Palestine.

Whatever fobias you are entertaining, Hamas in the U.S. shouldn't be one of them. Why not be afraid of the IRA and the Basque movement, too?

If you are going to use the word, learn to spell it -- PHOBIA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fiscally conservative, socially liberal, strong national defense American Jew and I'm petrified for our country's safety given the political climate and lack of leadership in the White House.

If you are an Obama supporter, if you are apolitical (hard to reach these people since I'm posting on the politics board, I get it), if you are a strict Liberitarian against involvement abroad, are you scared for our future as a free country? Do you worry about groups like ISIS, Al Quaeda, Hamas, having influence over your life and liberties in the US? It is already happening in Europe.

Honestly I'm not looking for a debate. I'm just having a hard time seeing how things can get better for us under this administration.

Hamas has shown zero interest, evidentially and historically, in doing anything outside of Palestine.

Whatever fobias you are entertaining, Hamas in the U.S. shouldn't be one of them. Why not be afraid of the IRA and the Basque movement, too?

If you are going to use the word, learn to spell it -- PHOBIA.

In Spanish, it's fobia. Hardly a reason to ignore the content of the post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fiscally conservative, socially liberal, strong national defense American Jew and I'm petrified for our country's safety given the political climate and lack of leadership in the White House.

If you are an Obama supporter, if you are apolitical (hard to reach these people since I'm posting on the politics board, I get it), if you are a strict Liberitarian against involvement abroad, are you scared for our future as a free country? Do you worry about groups like ISIS, Al Quaeda, Hamas, having influence over your life and liberties in the US? It is already happening in Europe.

Honestly I'm not looking for a debate. I'm just having a hard time seeing how things can get better for us under this administration.

Hamas has shown zero interest, evidentially and historically, in doing anything outside of Palestine.

Whatever fobias you are entertaining, Hamas in the U.S. shouldn't be one of them. Why not be afraid of the IRA and the Basque movement, too?

If you are going to use the word, learn to spell it -- PHOBIA.

In Spanish, it's fobia. Hardly a reason to ignore the content of the post.

This is the US, not Spain, not Mexico. Learn English.

[Anonymous]

I am worried that we are not taking terrorism seriously anymore considering everything that happened on 9/11 and the "clues" we missed cause we fell asleep at the wheel.

I blame the entire political environment and both parties. Everyone is trying to score cool points and not learn from lessons of the past. I fear that if we have another terrorist attack in this country, we'll look back at benghazi and how instead of focusing on any security lapse's or lessons learned, we spent out time playing gotcha trying to blame people in the administration. We will look back at how ISIS/IS increased its strength and influence because we as a country did nothing to slow them down. In the end the finger pointing will be 100 times worse with folks blaming obama, republicans, or some made up creation in their mind.

In the end, am I scared to death? No. Just worried and angry that our politicians are playing too many games and its going to end up biting us in the ass. I just hope it doesnt.

[jsteele]

Those of you worried about IS terrorism should read this article:

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/isis-and-al-qaeda-similarities-and-differences

The author compares IS to al-Qaida. One thing that stands out is that high-profile terrorist attacks abroad are much less likely to be conducted by IS given its priorities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not really concerned about terrorist acts from the 70s...I'm more concerned about acts of terrorism that could happen now. And I'm not worried about the crazy white kid in the movie theater---I'm worried about a coordinated act of terrorism by an extremist Muslim group (or the crazy American who has joined their jihad).

Honestly, that deranged White kid is a bigger fear for me because he is likely not on anyone's radar.

Even with 9/11, there was some chatter beforehand and some intelligence pointing to an attack- PTB just ignored it. Now, it appears that the intelligence agencies are a bit more diligent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fiscally conservative, socially liberal, strong national defense American Jew and I'm petrified for our country's safety given the political climate and lack of leadership in the White House.

If you are an Obama supporter, if you are apolitical (hard to reach these people since I'm posting on the politics board, I get it), if you are a strict Liberitarian against involvement abroad, are you scared for our future as a free country? Do you worry about groups like ISIS, Al Quaeda, Hamas, having influence over your life and liberties in the US? It is already happening in Europe.

Honestly I'm not looking for a debate. I'm just having a hard time seeing how things can get better for us under this administration.

Hamas has shown zero interest, evidentially and historically, in doing anything outside of Palestine.

Whatever fobias you are entertaining, Hamas in the U.S. shouldn't be one of them. Why not be afraid of the IRA and the Basque movement, too?

If you are going to use the word, learn to spell it -- PHOBIA.

In Spanish, it's fobia. Hardly a reason to ignore the content of the post.

This is the US, not Spain, not Mexico. Learn English.

Don't argue with me, I'm not the original poster. I'm just pointing out that it is not exactly a major error. It's a Greek word anyway. Maybe we can coin a 'merkan term and stop relying on those socialists on their way to economic doom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am worried that we are not taking terrorism seriously anymore considering everything that happened on 9/11 and the "clues" we missed cause we fell asleep at the wheel.

I blame the entire political environment and both parties. Everyone is trying to score cool points and not learn from lessons of the past. I fear that if we have another terrorist attack in this country, we'll look back at benghazi and how instead of focusing on any security lapse's or lessons learned, we spent out time playing gotcha trying to blame people in the administration. We will look back at how ISIS/IS increased its strength and influence because we as a country did nothing to slow them down. In the end the finger pointing will be 100 times worse with folks blaming obama, republicans, or some made up creation in their mind.

In the end, am I scared to death? No. Just worried and angry that our politicians are playing too many games and its going to end up biting us in the ass. I just hope it doesnt.

Maybe we should look at WHY people attack us. "They hate our freeeeedom" is a feel-good cop-out, not much different than saying the bullies at your school pick on you because they are jealous of your intelligence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am worried that we are not taking terrorism seriously anymore considering everything that happened on 9/11 and the "clues" we missed cause we fell asleep at the wheel.

I blame the entire political environment and both parties. Everyone is trying to score cool points and not learn from lessons of the past. I fear that if we have another terrorist attack in this country, we'll look back at benghazi and how instead of focusing on any security lapse's or lessons learned, we spent out time playing gotcha trying to blame people in the administration. We will look back at how ISIS/IS increased its strength and influence because we as a country did nothing to slow them down. In the end the finger pointing will be 100 times worse with folks blaming obama, republicans, or some made up creation in their mind.

In the end, am I scared to death? No. Just worried and angry that our politicians are playing too many games and its going to end up biting us in the ass. I just hope it doesnt.

Maybe we should look at WHY people attack us. "They hate our freeeeedom" is a feel-good cop-out, not much different than saying the bullies at your school pick on you because they are jealous of your intelligence.

its possible people can hate us simply because. i understand they could be mad at our involvement around the world and what not. i would argue though under obama that has not really been the case that weve come in and tried to take over, because thats not how he governs. that being the case, folks hating america and americans still exist under that scenario so trying to dr. phil the hell out the problem isnt the end all.

and nothing i said was meant to insult obama or anything. i was just stating a policy position and/or stance he has taken. some people like taking a comment and making it out to be something its not and i guess i feel the need to "clear it up". whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This is the US, not Spain, not Mexico. Learn English.

This is the US, a multilingual country with many ethnicities.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Those of you worried about IS terrorism should read this article:

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/isis-and-al-qaeda-similarities-and-differences

The author compares IS to al-Qaida. One thing that stands out is that high-profile terrorist attacks abroad are much less likely to be conducted by IS given its priorities.

i read a similar article and i cant find myself to believe this 100%. its a piece of mind kind of thing but i dont think everyone should live and die off this belief that they wouldnt carry out terrorism on a larger scale in the US or abroad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a fiscally conservative, socially liberal, strong national defense American Jew and I'm petrified for our country's safety given the political climate and lack of leadership in the White House.

If you are an Obama supporter, if you are apolitical (hard to reach these people since I'm posting on the politics board, I get it), if you are a strict Liberitarian against involvement abroad, are you scared for our future as a free country? Do you worry about groups like ISIS, Al Quaeda, Hamas, having influence over your life and liberties in the US? It is already happening in Europe.

Honestly I'm not looking for a debate. I'm just having a hard time seeing how things can get better for us under this administration.

Hamas has shown zero interest, evidentially and historically, in doing anything outside of Palestine.

Whatever fobias you are entertaining, Hamas in the U.S. shouldn't be one of them. Why not be afraid of the IRA and the Basque movement, too?

If you are going to use the word, learn to spell it -- PHOBIA.

In Spanish, it's fobia. Hardly a reason to ignore the content of the post.

OK. The rest of the post is not compelling.