Re: THE TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS U.S. CITIES REPORT :

In article <4nkae29svhruk5a401i541d38pk39urbtd@xxxxxxx>, Don Foreman says...

I wonder if we still have the starch and will to vanquish a very
determined and ruthless aggressor with significant economic power
and religion-based zeolotry that mostly neutralizes natural fear of
death by casting it as an event of glorious martyrdom.

Don, I *hope* you are talking about al queda.

Anyway, I would say that if we don't have the starch and will, then
we don't deserve to win. That's not defeatism, that's realism.
Nearly all the WW2 vets are gone by now. Almost nobody's lived
through the depression. I would say that by and large americans
are soft right now, hence success of the demagogs in our present
administration.

My only consolation is that americans do seem to be at their
finest when things are at the worst.

Jim


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