This isn't a political blog, but today I can't help myself.
Osama bin Laden is dead. Media all over the world spins the story round and round.
Kudos to the brave Navy Seals who got the real Mission Accomplished. But let's also stop and consider what the last 10 years have cost us. The lives of thousands of honorable men and women. An economy mired in a deepening recession from which we may never fully recover. The fall of the once strong $US dollar and the rise of a staggering national debt. Fear mongering which has created a bloated defense budget rife with waste and unaccountability. Limitations on our civil rights via the Patriot Act. A nation divided by bigotry, hatred, and warring ideology to such an extent that consensus on a sound course is all but unreachable.
For this one moment when we are again a 'United' States, let's start to repair our country with reasoned action and civil discourse. To quote an old Randy Newman song (Sigmund Freud's Impersonation of Albert Einstein in America)--"...America, America, step out into the light. Your the best dream man has ever dreamed..." Please, let's not continue aboard a Ship of Fools.
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