Originally Posted by LaRondo

The search for justification, that's what figures. It's only the tip of the iceberg.

There is no other way then to say it like this:

America is held hostage, ideologically, morally, materially and in most any other way. Spineless.

I give you an example, as Burgie was talking about 'neighbors'.

Let's say you own a nice junk of land, acreage, all you see is horizon. Some day people settle along the lines of what is your land, your property. For one reason or another, it seems that you can't get along with your 'new' neighbors. Trouble.

Next you realize, that those 'new' neighbors are somehow settling beyond the lines of what is theirs, on your acreage.

Years of enduring dispute. The new neighbors now claiming to be entitled to what was once your undisputed property, come moving closer to your home, seizing parcel after parcel, section after section of your land.

Eventually, those nice peace loving neighbors, even construct a wall around you and the small remainder of what was once your undisputed land.
You can't see the horizon anymore, all you know is, you are besieged, nothing comes through to you and you can't get out anymore to what was once your unrestrained property.

Also, you know, there is nothing you can debate with those "new neighbors". Regardless, just Nothing.

How would you feel? Would you fire a rocket, if you had one, besides having nothing else to loose?