I don't normally copy and paste my comments on other people's blogs onto my own but I was really moved while writing this response to Tony's post tonight.

Here's the foreground breakdown: I said that I agreed with Speaker of the House that New Orleans was a lost cause and shouldn't be rebuilt; Tony said that didn't surprise him since Republicans had been making major mistakes for five years; I said that may be true but that I felt in my heart and mind that Democrats would have made many many more; he responded by telling me not to call him "T." And I responded with this:

Tony,
Sorry about calling you "T." I meant no disrespect. I've re-watched four seasons of The Sopranos in the past week and it must have sunk in through osmosis.

The fact remains that if Gore were President during 9/11, he would have most likely followed the pathetic Clinton policy of taking terrorists to court supported by a United Nations thugged up with terrorist sympathizers who have been stealing and robbing from hard-working Americans whose tax dollars have been sent under the auspices of feeding, clothing, and caring for the Third World but actually went to fund who knows what the fuck--ask Kofi and his kin.

Beyond that, Able Danger has all but proven to the sensible American that Clinton was well aware of the growing Al Qaeda threat but did nothing and that Bush inherited a ticking bomb and reacted swiftly and appropriately (at least in my mind and you won't convince me otherwise so don't bother trying).

And now that intelligence agencies are fairly sure that Al Qaeda has allied themselves with the MS-13 street gang and has already smuggled nuclear weapons into the United States and are just waiting for the right time to use them, there's a big chance that your city is a major target. And what exactly do you think a Clinton/Gore/Kerry presidency would have done to prevent that from happening besides smiling a lot in front of the camera and bending over a little further for the UN and domestic terrorist cells to stick it in a little deeper?

We are talking about the future of our civilization here and you and Matt Good can talk about peace being the most important thing all you want, but the fact remains that peace without strength means less than shit and that further means that people have to go and die to secure that peace and provide you and I with the opportunity to hold virtual debates that don't end in beheadings and castrations.

Wars suck.

Hurricanes suck.

Schoepenhauer said Life is something that should not have been. But the fact remains that Life is and our entire civilization dictates that wars must be fought in order to secure peace, especially with an enemy who will grant no quarter and sign no treaty, who will not stop coming after us until their hearts stop beating.

And the fact that he was willing stand up and do something about it is exactly why I continue to support this President.