Who is more of a threat to America, Neocons or Radical Islam?

Question

I say neocons..In the last six years, we have accepted torture, loss of our rights, and attacking countries without reason to be an acceptable form of behavior. If we continue down this path and continue to ignore the premises that made America a force for good in the world, we will implode from the inside. We lost thousands of people on 9-11 and that is tragic, but what is even more tragic is that we are losing the morals and beliefs that make America great. While our government is protecting us from terrorists, who is protecting us from our govt? God help us.

neopirate...I am talking about leaders...I don't know any neocons...I know plenty of conservatives, but they don't like neocons either.

Answer 1

I'm willing to stick up for you and for everything that you've said here in your Yahoo! Answers' posting. I hope that people will come to realize that you are 100% on the money. Accurate in your assessment of the problem that America (our whole nation) faces today!

I am most willing and truthfully delight to put my john doe on this thread commit myself and say that you are 100% correct!

Max
peacenegotiator

Some people may not realize that this stuff is serious and that you've hit the nail on the head with respect to the solution!
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Answer 2

Yes. The only damage the nutcases can do is superficial. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be dealt with but there is a worse thing they can do and it comes from the non terrorist extremists who still cheer when someone blows themselves up but not publicly. Ones that are not jihadists but still wish wish for this county to be destroyed in every way while they take over to subjugate or kill all 5 billion non-muslims in the world, through legislation to make criticism of islam a crime like they have done in europe. It's harder here since we have the 1st amendment and we tend to get angrier and push back when something like that goes down because unlike eurabia Americans still have some spine. That's why they instead make a UN treaty that our president will agree to essentially making the 1st amendment void.

Answer 3

I agree with you that it is neocons. The radicals are generally overseas and really of little threat to us at home. Due diligence and Homeland Security doing their job we should be safe. The reason we are being attacked is that we are on their land. That land is sacred to them. When we leave they will have no reason to attack us any more. So as long as the neocon policy is to stay the course in the Middle East we are going to have problems with the radical elements over there.

At home, the neocon controlled Congress really accomplished very little that was positive. They stagnated any progress on many issues and forced us backwards on others. It is time for progress, for change in the right direction. That is why it is imparitive we vote Democrats into office. The Republican party should have time to mend, to recover from the damage the neocons have done to their party and in a decade or so bounce back as the grand old party they once were.

Answer 4

The unholy coalition of American conservatism and Islamofascism against enlightenment. They are opposites in this conflict but not enemies. Their dynamic of fear and terror is meant to marginalize and break the spirit of critical and free thinkers on all sides.
They both have a cultist spirit where everyone who doubts their interpretation is a traitor and part of the evil outside world(infidels for Muslims but liberal bias for cons) They both put ideology before science and reason think junk science like creatioinism or intelligent design. They both are extremely religous and hostile towards gay people

Of course there are differences in methods and sevirity of hostility but can you deny the similarities? Let's hope humanity will be clever enough not to let ourselves be fooled to take a side but reject them both and choose rationality.

They need each other for survival and their true enemies, free independent critical citizens are the same

Answer 5

the only way for America to regain any of the moral or beliefs that made this nation great is through an impartial transparent investigation into those thousands of lost lives!
why wasn't there a special prosecuter appointed to investigate it?I mean special prosecuter Starr spent more then $50 million investigating white water but only appropriated a million to originally investigate 911 limiting the time to investigate!Great morals those neo-cons have!
Turning a blind eye to evil is the same as having a hand in it which is why i don't have much respect for the people who consider themselves true conservatives.....they allowed the neo-cons to take over the republican party!

Answer 6

Morals, like having sexual relations with interns? We have not accepted torture, we have not lost any rights. We attacked countries? Plural? We still do alot of good in the world including 19 billion to help AIDS research in Africa. Tell ya what, buy your self a hybrid. That way you won't have to buy so much gas on your long journey back from left field.

Answer 7

Neocons. The fall of a great people usualy starts from within.

Answer 8

Neocons present a much greater danger to the US. Radical Islam can't bankrupt the country or remove sections of the Bill of Rights.

Answer 9

What morals and beliefs have we lost?

If you are referring to the Patriot Act, I haven't noticed a sharp decrease in my personal freedoms.

If you are referring to our pre-emptive strike on Iraq, consider the fact it wasn't pre-emptive. Once Saddam refused to let weapons inspectors in, the agreement that ended Gulf War I was null and void. One may think that removing him was a bad choice, and billions of dollars and thousands of lives later, it may be so. However, I don't think it marks a departure in our morals.

Furthermore, I wouldn't call the adminstration before Bush a high mark in morality. I'm glad he ran a surplus, and I do wish the current administration would learn something from that, but I don't think Clinton can claim a moral high ground.

Answer 10

Neocons *sm*