Unending war, indefinate imprisonment and the ethics of America

We must ask ourselves at this critical historical juncture just what kind of nation we want to be. Government officials are now contemplating giving themselves the legal ability (in reality, they are already practicing this) to "indefinately" imprison people they suspect of being terrorist threats. In other words, if they just think you might be associated with terror (i.e., if they don't have any evidence to convict you of such in a court), they still want the power to keep you imprisoned for the rest of your life!!! Nah...no one in a position of power would abuse that kind of power, would they?...You just have to look at the history and origins of any repressive society to see that that is exactly how these things start.

Such erosion of basic civil liberties and protections becomes commonplace in any militaristic society, as we most certainly now are. The War on Terror, according to our obviously brave and forward-looking "rear admirals", will only be over when we kill all the terrorists.

FACT: We will never kill or capture all or even most of the terrorists!!! We will never even kill or capture all members of Al Qaida (just like we will never get rid of all the drug dealers).

We pride ourselves on being an open, intelligent advanced nation, yet we pay zero attention to how our own cultural shortcomings and policies are creating the terrorism. Instead, our ego/ethno-centric elected representative government just keeps stubbornly nodding its head and saying we are good and they are evil and sending more stormtroopers (and that's not to denegrate the courageous men and women in uniform who are just doing their patriotic duty, but that is often how our troops are seen by the rest of the world when they are carrying out the bully tactics of US international policy!) out into the distant frontiers of the American empire...

Too pessimistic? Too angry? That seems to be at least part of the progressives/democrats problem these days - lots of bitching and no solutions to fix anything...