The American political machine has clearly whipped up plenty of fear, neurosis and paranoia - that certainly isn't news - It didn't take long for communists to be replaced by terrorists in the national psyche. Has anyone here read 1984? Try looking at what is going on here from a detached point of view. Who benefits from a scared populace the most? As roachboy said,
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an enemy that is everywhere and nowhere: one that can strike at any moment but is invisible; one that is all powerful and powerless, totally organized and without organization, definable yet ephemeral--"islamic fundamentalists" that you cannot quite define, cannot quite locate, but are quite sure will be the death of you, but you have no idea when or how or why.....what could be more a neurotic fantasy than that?
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Doesn't that remind you of the communist infiltrationist paranoia of the 50s? The only people who benefited from whipping up that sorry mess were those trying to win on a National Security ticket. It's a whole lot easier to look as though you've succeeded in solving a problem you've inflated and exaggerated out of all proportion.