I read in your paper that a growing number of women feel safer with President Bush than they would with John Kerry.
I just don’t understand that.
How can anyone feel safer with the assault weapons ban now expired?
How can anyone feel safer with more than 1,000 of our soldiers dead in a country verging on anarchy rather than democracy?
How can anyone feel safer with a president who believes in attacking any country he thinks might be dangerous before it does anything, before there is proof there is the capacity to do anything, before the international community agrees there is a problem and even before that country states an intention of doing harm to us?
How can anyone feel safer with admiration of the United States turning into hatred as I’ve read in several international polls?
I’ve never felt more scared in my life, for my country. The development of a realistic sense of safety requires a realistic perception of the situation.
Time and time again, I’m finding my fellow citizens unable to absorb the facts of the situation.
There is reason to fear, and the cause of that fear is ourselves.
