I am not suggesting we shouldn't have the ability to defend ourselves from direct attack. Trying to compare the non-cooperation of a well isolated and contained despot with Hitler, is disingenuous. If Europe and the US had contained Hitler the way we have contain Iraq, Libya, and other despotic regimes, the Holocaust couldn't have happened.

Think about it. There is precious little beyond intelligence gathering that we can do to defend ourselves from terrorist attacks like 9/11. Except to clean up our act overseas, and support democracy outside the empire the same way we do within it, to defuse anti-American hatred building to the point it has today. The double standards we employ in our foreign policy has come home to haunt us, as is always the case when imperial nations overreach like we have.

The Jean Kirkpatrick foreign policy model (he is a despotic bastard, but he is OUR despotic bastard), which has been the modus operandi of US foreign policy for the better part of the past two centuries, has to change if we are to maintain our quality of life and standard of living. Such bold, successful attacks as the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11 demand a new paradigm, not more business as usual from the securocrats.

C'mon people, do you really feel safer now than you did on 9/12/01?