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Our greatest weakness as a country may be our inability to seperate the political from the critical. There should be no question that either party would do its best to protect us from terrorism. One would hope this would be an obvious truth but for some reason in the United States we argue that the other party is cowardly or incompetent or even in league with terrorists. This divide weakens us. Similarly there should be no question that industries that produce waste products that can poison our children need to be regulated very carefully...but instead this clear reality is obfuscated by bickering about ideology....this is all very sad because future generations will pay the price for our weakness as a nation.
