Let that be a lesson.

We Americans are a strange lot. We anguish and are ready to go off to war (mostly with paid mercenaries) because 'terrorists' killed 3,000 in New York on 9/11. Yet, it doesn't faze many of us when we learn that 45,000 Americans die annually because they can't afford medical care. They are uninsured. And it's not as if we can't afford universal health care. It'd cost less than what it takes to conduct simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wars that we think are necessary to protect and save America from the enemy. When really the enemy is us. Ourselves. Yes, we neglect our local needs. We waste lives. So that we can pay back a handful of mostly Arabian terrorists by killing hordes of Muslims, many of 'em innocents, on the other side of the world. Yes, we'll show the rest of the world. You kill 3,000 of ours and we'll retaliate with our mighty force. And kill tens of thousands of yours for every 3,000 of ours. Let that be a lesson. --Jim Broede