Hold Me, I'm Scared

Since John’s on the wagon today, I thought I’d fill in.

Let me start with this quote from Gen. Tommy Franks (he was asked about the repercussions of another catastrophic terrorist event in the US):

“… the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.”

Further, such an attack may cause us “to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution.”

Scary line of thinking. If more terrorist attacks then loss of all freedoms, tear Constitution in two and military/police state. Neat.

The quotes came from an interview that Franks gave for Cigar Aficionado, of all magazines. Their website doesn’t have a link to the article. If you’re interested in more commentary about the article, look here. Franks also says that peace will never reign in our lifetimes and “never has in the history of mankind.” Lets all go ahead and shoot ourselves now.

Posted by k-pho at December 3, 2003 3:54 PM