Ten,
re: Yeah, yeah, you're more likely to die in a car accident than in an act of terrorism.
You are more likely to die from almost anything than terrorism. There is a hysteria in this country, reinforced by 1000 images of the WTC. There are almost certainly going to be additional terrorist attacks in this country, but they are going to be much smaller, and they are going to be few and far between. It has been almost two years since 9/11, and it was 8 years before that, that we had the first WTC bombing. That's it as far as terrorist attacks, nothing more, zip, nada. Both were from the same source, by the way. Is this REALLY the most pressing issue of our time?
How much of GDP to you want to spend on a "zero tolerance policy" against terrorism? How much personal freedom do you want to give up? How many wars do you want to fight, with good American kids dying, and killing innocents abroad? For a threat that is minor compared to everyday life. They don't call them terrorists for nothing; 9/11 was the perfect torrist attack (helped by live TV), it terroized the sh-t out of us, to the point that we can't balance priorities. I'm sure OBL is still laughing, not because of the people he killed, but because he took 15-20 guys and changed the course of the most powerful nation in the world. He won, big time.
And we out are chasing ghosts, and we are not even in the right country. Makes you sick.
John |
