Recently I've been using the term "blind faith" (or any variation there of) to describe a bunch of things. In my book, blind faith is believing in a cause so much that you don't see the wrong in it. Obviously, 9/11 was the result of blind faith, but I'd also say that was blind, deaf, impotent, and autistic faith. The hijackers wholly believed that the U.S. is the devil and that their interpretation of the Quran was the only interpretation. Even kamikazes in WWII were blindly faithful to a degree, taking their own lives for the pride of Japan.
Which leads me to the present day. For any of my friends reading this that may not know, I am not a Republican, more of an independent that leans to the left a lot. I think our President has been blinded by personal vendettas and personal desires instead of doing what I think he should be accomplishing domestically. I support his actions after 9/11 and liberating Afghanistan, but Iraq has been severely overdone. No, there weren't any WMD's found and yes, we have Saddam in custody. But now, I think it's time he looked at how many American soldiers have been killed by the Iraqi people (and maybe some camel spiders, those things are huge), who are obviously not very keen on our presence. Good things have happened, such as overthrowing Saddam's regime and setting up new schools, but take a step back and look at it all: 500+ soldiers killed and getting nowhere fast in the battle aspect, not to mention extremely low morale from the soldiers.
Don't look through the Washington glasses, but through the glasses of the common American and the American soldier; I believe 500 dead soldiers and devastated families is 500 too many.