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.

When they try to kill us like this, it’s a big deal.