Democracy

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Alexander Tyler

i've always like that quote, imho, it is the real enemy, not terrorism

like in life, what is in the mirror is at times the enemy because each and everyone of us has great strengths and great weakness's and in times of stress, the worst, we must be our best, yet, often times we fail

i've been there done that many times, and am still working on it