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Speaking of which, jokes are harder to tell these days, especially the good ethnic ones, for fear of being accused of offending.

NOW LET ME tell you why this is all so important.

In the past, this sanitization of what we say and do would have been debate-worthy, but only a minor irritant to our quality of life.

But in the post-9/11 world, these trends represent a threat to our survival.

No wonder that 4 ½ years after 9/11, we're still flying blind in the war on terror, refusing to accept that the fact that radical Islamic terrorists usually evidence the common denominators of race, sex, age, ethnicity and, yes, appearance.

And isn't it curious that there is more attention paid to the half-dozen knuckleheads responsible for some truly minor indiscretions at Abu Ghraib than the good work of the 140,000 other honorable servicemen and women?

Have you wondered why there is more concern for whether we played Christina Aguilera music too loud for detainee No.

063 at Guantanamo than the fact that this same guy would have been hijacker No.

20, cutting throats with box-cutters on 9/11, had he gotten past customs officials when he tried to get into Orlando International Airport a month before 9/11?

Or that we actually have had a debate about whether to print political cartoons that work radical Islam into a lather?

It's because we are no longer a country that respects our differences, thoug...

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