Originally Posted by
mikeef
Oh, I don't hate to say it at all. You know, while it's still legal.
As PhlyingRPh so excellently put it, we're focusing our resources on the wrong things. But terrorist attacks are unknown and scary, no matter how rare they are. They make an excellent Boogie Man for anyone who wants to scare the crap out of Americans (and thereby sell newspapers, get elected, etc.).
Mike
That's the thing in my book - I don't think it's about control so much as elected. They like their jobs and perks and want to be seen as Doing Something.
Not that terrorism isn't real - it is. But where in the scale of problems this country faces (and the world, for that matter) does it lie?