Month: November 2007

Watching “The Daily Show” tonight with guest Senator John McCain, Jon Stewart commented that the US has not won the war. McCain’s response was “well then tell me who won the war? Do you think it was Al-Qaeda?” His point being that, look, they haven’t bombed us again. But, in my thinking about the situation, Al-Qaeda have indeed won their war. In fact they have won it rather completely. They achieved their primary goal of completey changing the way the citizens of the US live, and they have achieved their secondary goal of miring our country in a conflict away from our soil. But back to their first goal. No on can deny life has changed drastically for the worse since the millennium. Our own government has used fear instilled in the lower intelligence masses to get us to give up our freedoms in exchange for a little secure feeling. Warentless wiretapping, broad powers for military and executive branch, secretive executive orders, and dozens of other evils hidden inside the so called “Patriot act” have completely pervaded our society. It’s heartbreaking, I don’t even have a punchline for this sad end to a 231 year stretch.