RIP America--Read it and weep

R.I.P. America

The body still breathes but the spirit´s waning

by Alan Bisbort

- January 19, 2006

All it took was 18 guys with box cutters and America was no more. Not "defeated," of course, because we are still the most powerful nation on the planet -- if one measures "power" on such things as size of nuclear arsenal, numbers of conventional killing machines, consumption of
goods, corporate wealth, stock holdings, private educational opportunities, etc. But the horror of Sept. 11, 2001 -- events that, we've since learned, might have been prevented if the President had fulfilled the responsibilities of his office or might have been used to bring people together to fight terrorism rather than turn us into the
most reviled nation on earth -- sent America into a tailspin, one that we've yet to pull out of. Rather than becoming a stronger, more confident and ennobled nation, we've become exactly what our forefathers warned us against: a tyranny. With almost comical irony, the new tyrant, like the old one, is called George.

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