Reply #24: Well, I've got news for Dennis Miller, and EVERYBODY else who says [View All]

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"9/11 changed everything." If they say that, they are formally, officially declaring that the terrorists won.

The terrorists, if I'm not mistaken, and Osama in particular, wanted to change and throw to the dogs everything that is America. Probably like our liberty, our freedom of speech and of movement, our government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE. Our feelings of security. Our general feelings of community with the rest of the world. The way we do business. Yep, all that's changed. And to glory in it, as he does, is admitting that Osama won. Osama DID get what he wanted. America is now totally different. Specifically because of the way we reacted. That's the really pathetic part. WE enabled Osama. WE made those changes voluntarily, in reaction to 9/11. We numbed out and handed everything over to a dictatorship that didn't hesitate for an instant to exploit this for its own gain. (WE, by the way, NOT including people here at DU, and other enlightened, informed, clear-thinking ones). We changed ourselves in response to 9/11. And Osama's probably laughing every day. Because WE did his heavy lifting for him.