You Hit the buildings, But You
Missed America . . . .

An open letter to the terrorist:

Well, you hit the World Trade Center, but you missed
America. You hit the Pentagon, but you missed America.
You used helpless American bodies, to take out other
American bodies, but like a poor marksman, you STILL
missed America.

Why? Because of something you guys will never understand. America isn't about a building or two, not about financial
centers, not about military centers, America isn't about a
place, America isn't even about a bunch of bodies. America
is about an IDEA. An idea, that you can go someplace where
you can earn as much as you can figure out how to, live for
the most part, like you envisioned living,and pursue Happiness.
(No guarantees that you'll reach it, but you can sure try!)

Go ahead and whine your terrorist whine, and chant
your terrorist litany: "If you can not see my point, then
feel my pain."

This concept is alien to Americans. We live in a country
where we don't have to see your point. But you're free to
have one. We don't have to listen to your speech. But
you're free to say one. Don't know where you got the
strange idea that everyone has to agree with you. We
don't agree with each other in this country, almost as a
matter of pride. We're a collection of guys that don't
agree, called States. We united our individual states to
protect ourselves from tyranny in the world. Another
idea, we made up on the spot. You CAN make it up as
you go, when it's your country.

If you're free enough.

Yeah, we're fat, sloppy, easy-going goofs most of the time. That's an unfortunate image to project to the world, but it
comes of feeling free and easy about the world you live in.
It's unfortunate too, because people start to forget that
when you attack Americans, they tend to fight like a
cornered badger. The first we knew of the War of 1812,
was when England burned Washington D.C. to the ground.
Didn't turn out like England thought it was going to, and it's
not going to turn out like you think, either. Sorry, but you're
not the first bully on our shores, just the most recent.

No Marquis of Queensbury rules for Americans, either.
We were the FIRST and so far, only country in the world
to use nuclear weapons in anger. Horrific idea, nowadays?
News for you bucko, it was back then too, but we used it
anyway. Only had two of them in the whole world and we
used 'em both. Grandpa Jones worked on the Manhattan
Project. Told me once, that right up until they threw the
switch, the physicists were still arguing over whether the
Uranium alone would fission, or whether it would start a
fissioning chain reaction that would eat everything. But
they threw the switch anyway, because we had a War
to win. Does that tell you something about
American Resolve?

So who just declared War on us? It would be nice to
point to some real estate, like the good old days.
Unfortunately, we're probably at war with random camps,
in far-flung places. Who think they're safe. Just like
the Barbary Pirates did. They were wrong. So are you.
Better start sleeping with one eye open.
 

There's a spirit that tends to take over people who come
to this country, looking for opportunity, looking for liberty,
looking for freedom. Even if they misuse it. The Marielistas
that Castro emptied out of his prisons, were overjoyed to
find out how much freedom there was. First thing they did
when they hit our shores, was run out and buy guns. The
ones that didn't end up dead, ended up in prisons.

It was a big problem then (especially in south Florida).
We solved that problem. As for you, you're only the newest problem, not the first.

You guys seem to be incapable of understanding that
we don't live in America, America lives in US! American Spirit
is what it's called. And killing a few thousand of us, or a few million of us, won't change it. Most of the time, it's a pretty happy-go-lucky kind of Spirit. Until we're crossed in a
cowardly manner, then it becomes an entirely different
kind of Spirit.

Wait until you see what we do with that
Spirit....this time.

Sleep tight....if you can.

We're comin....
 
 

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