I live in England. I am English. I am white. I am not a Muslim. Yet with so called political correctness stopping true freedom of speech here i find i AM also a minority. Pathetic, but true. Go figure "to quote an American phrase".

PHIL,
We have a choice, freedom or security, but we cannot have both.
As long as there are differences men will always fight, its in our nature. It will all stop when there is "Nothing to die for"

get over it...

I agree with the position above that political correctness is strangling western civilization. Muslim terrorists threaten our very existence and all we can think about is avoiding racial profiling and violating someone's civil rights. The U.S. & British governments are reduced to simply makings list upon list rather than attacking the problem - list of terrorist cells, probable members, known terrorists, flight risks, etc, etc, etc. We had better get serious about this war and stop the hand wringing or we'll all be speaking Arabic and living by Sharia muslim law.

The most powerful tools the Jihadists are using against are our own laws and our fear of being anything other than politically correct.

They can do whatever they want, but when we want to secretly listen to potential terrorists calling into the US, the Dems cry foul, just to throw mud at GWB.

The Dems are literally taking the tools we have to find and track these nutcases out of our hands just so they can put Hillary in the White House in 2008.

Look at how happy Al Qaeda is to have the Dems win the mid-terms! And they have offered the Bleeding heart Libs the "opportunity" to negotiate.

Hmmm, maybe John Kerry should ask for Jacques Chirac's permission first, after all, he did say that he didn't want to step on the Europeans' toes, even if it means the end of the red white and blue.

Sick! I can't believe so many americans are falling for the Democrats' nonesense. Why don't those voters simply don suicide vests themselves and make life easy for the terrorists.

WHAT websites? WHAT internet chatter? Let's see it! How come all of these government warnings come from 'anonymous' sources, and 'web sites'. If people were TRULY posting these things on websites, the US government could easily find those people by simply confiscating the computers that the posts were made on. But of course, we don't see that happening. Because much of this is a charade.

Why are you suckers falling for this meaningless propaganda? These are the same scare tatics that were employed on the public in the year running up to the invasion of Iraq. A handful of people in the US and British governments convinced the entire world it was on the brink of destruction from Saddam Hussein. Of course all of that was manufactured nonsense, and we are now left with 1/2 TRILLION dollars spent and over 500,000 deaths in Iraq and nothing to show for it other than anarchy.

I'm British, white and middle-aged. So why was I targeted for "special treament" at Miami airport when I was flying back to London last month - dusted for explosives. all my hand luggage dusted for explosives, told to shut up sit down and not touch anything and generally treated as a criminal until the TSA security people found nothing untoward? My wife, who's Canadian, a French woman and a German man were also treated like me, while obvious Muslim-looking American passport holders went through normal security. All this followed being singled out for 'special treatment' at Atlanta and Newark on earlier flights that week.

Gee, didn't George Washington lead an offense against the British during Christmas?
Isn't that what an armed insurgency does?

Eric: "These are the same scare tatics that were employed on the public in the year running up to the invasion of Iraq."

Show us documented examples please.

You are making this up and you know it. If you can't make your case with facts, you simply have no case.

And: "If people were TRULY posting these things on websites, the US government could easily find those people by simply confiscating the computers that the posts were made on."

That is one of the most grindingly stupid statements I've read in some time. Did it ever dawn on one of your two active brain cells that the computers in question may not be in the US or the UK and so not readily reached by authorities from either nation?

Your posts seem an insipidly childish attempt at coercing people to 'think' like you.

To all the Republicans screaming about how terrible the Dems are, and how liberals all want to roll over for the terrorists, wake up and smell the coffee. You've had eight years with control of the White House and Congress, and things have gone from bad to worse under your watch. Time for a new approach. And for all this talk about giving up our political correctness, what you're really advocating is giving up civil liberties, especially those of people that happen to be of the same ancestry of our enemies. We did that to Japanese Americans in WWII, putting them in internmint camps. No matter how big the threat from the Japanese was, can you really say that was justified or correct? By eroding our civil liberties and turning on our own citizens, we are giving the terrorists exactly what they want. We are destroying our own way of life. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." A famous quote from Benjamin Franklin that still holds true today.

The way to effectively fight this war, and yes, I acknowledge we are at war, is to focus our resources where they matter most, while doing everything we can to display to the world why our way of life is the best. Starting a war in a country that had neither weapons of mass destruction nor known links to terror (it was a completely secular regime) has created a new battle cry for militant muslims to rally behind. We have you Republicans to thank for that.

Got an idea. Once the terrorists blow something up we can blame it on the Jews. That way, we won't totally blame the Muslims and incite more violence. *s*

Just wanted to say that I agree totally with Aaron (above) and assume that Boaz's comment is thick with sarcasm. What a mess.

Wars are not won by winning hearts and minds, they are won bydestroying the enemies will to fight. WW II was the last war to be fought to a clear resolution. We nade it clear that we would only accept unconditional surrender from Germany and Japan.
"Shock and awe" obviously does not work.
Bottom Line: we have to take the gloves of and make it so costly for them that their continuing existance is in immenient jepoardy. very

Uh,...so what happened?
That's right. Nothing.
But papers and chunks of TV advertising were bought and sold to run during the news hours and the specter of fear once again renewed.

please check out the video by Lebanese Christian Brigitte Gabrielle, very informative