defending americans. we did see in the very early days, when it was learned that these men had attended a mosque, a woman who was close to the mosque came out and said we saw no signs of this. had we seen any signs of this, we would have called the police. we do see the face of islam that is obviously the bulk of those who practice it. the question is there s a fine line between a community in which you reach out and a community you re spying on, and it seems to me that, if you spy on and you re always in there going who s doing what, that you create a distance for those folks who might otherwise help you. they begin to feel attacked. that s why, candy, the key thing is a partnership rather than trying to create a mentality of siege or suspicion for an entire faith community, there s over 6 million peaceful american muslims in the country, you want to create a feeling of
and the dictator. in other words, you have the army ready to crack heads in people didn t like your temporary situation. and we should all remember the context. the security forces, their number one enemy for four years was the muslim brotherhood. morsi did time in prison. they were tortured. the security forces have an institutional memory of essentially finding, spying on, and imprisoning and beating the same people who are now running the state. the top two generals in the army are beholden to him. they owe him something. we re confusing a couple of things. first of all, the army is different from the security apparatus. it s serving the presidency. we see them doing that right now. what i m talking about is that we do not know that he has the army behind him. so in other words, and it was the army s defection from mubarak. why did they defect from mubarak? the deal between the dictator
more patriotic than ever, angry and determined to do whatever ki to get america back on the right track. it may seem insurmountable, but you have to start somewhere with something small like the next election. gary in scotsdale, arizona, i was born in the middle of the depression and grew up in world war ii and served ten years in the military and 33 years in corporate life, and america was like a best friend, strong, reliable, and compassionate and focused. today, that dear friend is living near poverty and many of the qualities i so admired seem to have been lost. my friend has clearly changed, but on july 4th, my friend is having a birthday party, and i plan to attend albeit with a heavy heart. cindy writes, jack, i was beginning to waiver on the patriotism until the russian spy story broke. if the russians still consider us worthy of spying on, then we must be doing something right. and meg says, this is not a good year for fireworks, because we