Seeking the Soul of America.

The soul is a mutable thing and the soul of the American government mutated after the attacks of 9/11/01. It is more secretive...deceptive. What do those point to that is deeper. Defensive...deeper...Fear. I think America was more "offensive," so to speak, before 9/11/01, we attacked, we weren't afraid to throw our weight around. We attacked Iraq and Afghanistan, though. This whole NSA thing though is pure defense. It's putting our fingers in the holes in the dike. I think the American government got paralyzed by fear after 9/11/01, but this is the key thing: the American government got paralyzed by fear that it would have to attack Islam, and that was undoable. That would mean attacking Muslims in America, like FDR did Japanese-Americans who refused to profess their loyalty to America, and Muslim states like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The American government wasn't going to do any of that, so it declared defeat, it surrendered to Islam by falsely declaring and deciding that Islam was not the enemy, and it went defensive, sticking fingers in the dike and thereby preventing-how many times have we heard that word recently with NSA-other attacks. America went from being aggressive to being passive.