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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (7304)	2/11/2003 12:58:14 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25898

I wish war wasn't the answer, but I fear that it is. The American public is being scared witless by the constant warnings of this administration. And when you are scared, you begin to hate. And with hate comes irrationality. And being the greatest military power in the history of the world, we can be irrational only at the expense of some poor, unlucky peoples of the world. Americans have always been rather poor at threat assessment. A poll conducted by the Economist magazine a few years ago asked Americans to evaluate their risk of being a victim of violent crime. The answers of Americans indicted a perceived risk which was 100 times greater than the actual risk. We have always been good at manufacturing imaginary fears. All in all, we are too easily scared and do not assess risks accurately. And the frequent warnings from the Administration do not help. So a paper tiger has become a major threat to the greatest power the world has ever known. The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves. Unless you want to count the lone star of Texas. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken