A Question by John Kozy: Can America be Changed?

John Kozy poses an interesting question: If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to understand America's political economy, so that the parts of it which are morally offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then, will Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Abe Lincoln's dream of a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people a wondrous reality. The reality is the idiot George Bush, who claimed: "There is still an enemy out there who would like to inflict damage on America - Americans- The most important job for the next president is to protect the American people from another attack." Unusually powerful words for a man who has never even carried a rifle, or any other weapon in combat, as I did in Vietnam, or who has killed men, women, and even children in that sordid disaster. But I digress: John Kozy wants to know, as I do: "Nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives" This statement is too ambiguous. He suspects that more than 3,000 Americans died on 9/11, but not all of them died as a result of the airplanes that were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Furthermore, the people who did die as a result of these events fall into different groups - those who were in the buildings before the planes crashed into them, and those who responded to the crashes, and all who were in the buildings before the crashes died as a result of the crashes. Possibly fewer than 3,000. Actually, I had occasion to visit the Pentagon, accompanied by Steve Mayfield, a CIA man, who had earlier, while he tried to get me to serve as a spy in East Germany, and kept himself busy updating the "analysis of our area of operations". My boss, Colonel Aantero Aakkula, assured me that this was NOT James Bond, and that the East Germans would lock me up in a "dirty, rat infested jail", and that our "American government" would NOT try to have me released.