re: #56 Nimed

This may sound hubristic to you, but I’m not very concerned with another terrorist strike, even a successful one. I’m much more worried about people going apeshit - again - with all the risks that entails: another gigantic blunder like the Iraq war, even more liberties curtailed, etc, etc.

I really wish the American people would get used to the idea that we are likely to suffer another successful terrorist attack. If we don’t make a big deal out of it, we basically take away the only weapon they have.

It doesn’t sound hubristic, it sounds naive and simple-minded.

If we had another successful terrorist attack here, asking people not to make a big deal out of it would be like asking the shrimp fishermen in the Gulf to just shrug off the oil spill and get on with their lives.

If we had a major successful terrorist attack here and it came from Pakistan, I would not be opposed to joining India in all-out war on that nearly failed state.

You really do live in a world of unicorns, don’t you?