Intolerance....what a novel idea. You, as usual, are right on track DD.
When someone wants to destroy your way of life, erase your history, take your life, the life of your family...its not intolerance, it's discernment. I suspect our kool aide drinking fellow citizens prefer their life of comfort, which flows from cheap energy out of the middle east, over freedom.
We only need look to who they picked for our President. When it comes down to it, I think the President and the kool aide drinkers (along with policitians and the MBA's running the large corporations) will sell everything we believe in and stand for to buy another day of delusion, another day of the good life.
I did not think at the time that our fellow citizens truly learned anything from 911.
The Russians have been invited and are planning on putting bombers in Venuezuela and Cuba. China challenging freedom of the seas by harrasing our supply ships, building an aircraft carrier (technology ala Clinton and some bottom line MBA CEO I'd bet). Our nation's military strained by inadequete funding to truly support two fronts of conflict; you know the DOD has undoubtably taken short cuts and delayed maintenance and supplles from critical systems to support the battles. NATO weakened by the underpinnings of stability in it's member nations, with real problems in having large Mooslim populations that do not support the national intent seeking change.
Now consider U.S. ...a large population influx that supports the sheep mentality and turn your head...other than the violent drug cartels that laugh at our borders...hard workers but unwilling to take a stand as a group...evidence the drug cartels that run their home nation and now they compliment our own sheep. Terrorist camps in our midst. A populace of fellow citizens who are so fearful of offending anyone they no longer recognize right from wrong...perhaps that is why the outcry of the southern invasion has not gone futher, birds of a feather.... A Congress that prefers perception over substance, and decrees our laws as such punishing those who don't "look right" in thought, word and deed; hate crime legislation surely on it's way.
An economy, broken not by our military stands but by handouts and our own greed driven by politicians in an effort to buy votes to maintain power (we are by far the largest debtor nation on the planet with debts greater than this planet's entire GDP). An economy, finally leveled by the changes in lending practices made in the 90's to address the intolerance of having good credit before receiving a loan...the main architects of which advise and are in fact on the Cabinet of the President of the United States of America.
And then we have the President of the United States of America. What impeccable timing.