This is a rant!

I knew what to title this one!! What is wrong with this country. Have we become a nation of paranoids or what. Everyone is so scared of dying in some kind of terrorist attack. What difference does it make how you die. Does being killed in an attack make it worse than dying in a house fire? Adversity is one of the tests a person, a group, or a nation has to go through sometimes. This is one and we are failing miserably. Someone gets upset on a plane and everyone panics. People used to get upset on a plane and were allowed to calm down and the flight continued. If someone gets upset on a flight now, they are handcuffed, abused and the plane lands and spends hours getting inspected.

As for saying "Pakistan" on a plane I guarantee if my flight was going badly I would be cussing out Pakistan, Afghanistan and every other middle eastern country that could be blamed as well as the US government for getting us into this crap. I'd probably get arrested too. Of course with all the crap that is going on-I won't be flying. I would be upset without my crochet hooks and yarn or knitting needles and yarn.

Which brings me to another rant, The criticism of the Japanese Primeminister for visiting a shrine of Japanese war dead. What is wrong with that. The dead of all wars should be respected regardless of whose side they were on. Right or wrong is more a question of viewpoint after all. We felt it was wrong for the Japanese to start a war-but they on the other hand felt it was right. If we had been born in Japan we would have felt the same way. Regardless of how we think of war dead-soldiers only follow orders after all, and they have a right to be respected for giving their lives in a cause. End of second rant. Hope this gives people something to think about.