The Terror Alert Levels system is the most cunning tool of terrorism ever devised. Clever manipulation of the color code (well, and the electronic voting machines) kept Bush in office in 2004.
I've got to point at this Libermanism:
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......... "I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us - more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous that the Soviet Communists we fought during the long Cold War," Lieberman said.
"If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again."..........
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And why would they do that? Once we give them what they want, they'll just attack us willy-nilly? Oh, that's right: they're not goal-oriented and politically-motivated guerilla fighters, they're Evil Nazi Stalinist Terrorists who Hate Us Because Of Our Freedom.
So our "enemy" is a cartoon character. My only question: which Evil caracture are we talking here? Are they Snidely Whiplash evil? Or Boris Badenoff evil?
Did you know that in the United States, you're vastly more likely to be hit by lightning than involved in a terrorist attack? Even in Israel, vastly more people are killed in traffic accidents than by katyusha rockets. The fact is: on an individual level, we're pretty fucking safe from terrorism doing exactly the same stuff we were on September 10th. Right after 9/11 we were told to keep living our lives--which we absolutely WOULD if these people would quit trying to terrify us.