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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, IIRC. 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 PITA
then (especially in south Florida), but you're only
the newest PITA, 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 coming.