how many people did osama bin laden personally kill on American soil?
Reminds me of why we had to bomb Hiroshima - twice.
In contrast to Germany; Japan's was partly a strongly religious war against our country: their Emperor believed by them as divine.
Thus, their fool Kamikaze pilots and their one way trip, suicide bomber flights.
There is no way to fight that kind of a thing but by their same threat of total annihilation.
The problem today is nowhere near being Syria's everyday normal masses coming here anymore than it was those every day Germans, and Japanese who were here.
In the end, we took Germany out in Germany; Japan out, in Japan - big, big time.
And the world learned you do NOT mess with the U.S.
As with 911 - we took their war back to them.
Muslims continued to come here and 911 was the only time the terrorists were able to pull off that horror on our shores.
We kept the terrorists too busy on their shores - their having to hide in their caves, etc., for them to be able to focus on a way to pull another stunt like that.
And we revved up our internal investigations here at home.
I was thinking on this one beautiful Halloween back then.
The weather was just right; children and their parents were everywhere: their children just being children.
I thought to myself 'how amazing; here we are at war in the Middle East. And yet, able to go on with our lives, back home here. What a great country..."
As Trump put it - "bomb the hell out of them..." when they mess with us.
Obviously, that would not be here in the states.
Though I suspect he would screw that up as well; given his impulsive fool nature.
Point is their war with us is from over there.
Our great stupidity?
Our continued failure to help the Syrians who are also their victims.
One huge reason our Government had failed to bring down Organized Crime, even after they finally began to go after the Mob Families, was that the Italian Godfathers looked out for their neighborhoods.
As a result, the people in those neighborhoods looked out for them whenever Law Enforcement came "snooping around."
I remember this one Italian neighborhood I used to work in, where a Godfather lived.
Most people didn't even lock their doors.
Insulated from crime just outside its' borders by his edict, the whole area was as clean and seemingly unassuming as that neighborhood on "Leave It To Beaver."
That Godfather had issued an edict that anyone committing a crime in his neighborhood was "to to be hunted down until found and killed," as he wanted "no heat from the Law in my neighborhood."
As a result, the people in that neighborhood looked out for him.
After he died, and with his death, his protection of that neighborhood; it gradually turned crime ridden, street gang infested, etc.
My point?
That we have stupidly alienated the very people better able to keep an eye out on those who they themselves come here attempting to flee from.
Look at some of those detainees who have turned out having been working with us against terrorism.
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