So far, it's been a defeat for the America I used to know. These guys must have known us better than we know ourselves. A president who used the tragedy to wage an unjust war worthy of fascists that would make real all the lies Al Queda told about us, enriching his pals as he furthered the strange and twisted neo-con idealogy instead of destroying the man who did this. A nation willing to sell out it's principles over fear. We will soon be withdrawing in defeat from Afghanistan, where a man sworn to destroy us by the city-full was left to connive onward while we murdered school children with cruise missles in Iraq. The entire thing has worked out better for our enemies than it has for us, as they stand poised to take over a nation equipped with atomic weapons. The US economy in ruins. The US dollar, shattered. Trillions of dollars that should have went to further our greatness, evaporated in the sands of a nation that will collapse as soon as we walk out the door. And all the while instead of committing ourselves to Total War the way our forefathers did, sacrificing and waging war as a nation, we instead gave tax cuts to those who should have been called upon to sacrifice. May God help us. Whereever Ozama Bin Laden is, he is smiling.