{"id":1900,"date":"2008-06-18T07:59:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T11:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2008-06-18T07:59:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T11:59:27","slug":"americans-bored-with-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1900","title":{"rendered":"Americans bored with terrorism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Washington Post’s Planet War<\/a> discussion forum, Peter Feaver asks readers if we’re bored with terrorism;<\/p>\n

\u00a0…the failure to find the large stockpiles of WMD in Iraq, and the discovery that Saddam Hussein was pursuing a complex bluffing game, and the various revisions in intelligence estimates about Iranian nuclear programs — all of these things have led some to argue that the United States, or more particularly the Bush Administration, has exaggerated the threat of WMD terrorism. Do you agree? I am not asking whether you agree with the policy responses of the Administration. Rather, I am asking whether you think the threat is more grave than, less grave than, or roughly as grave as the Administration has claimed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He gets the usual responses from the signature readers of the Washington Post; Bush lied, the planet died, etc…. More steeped in their own politics, the commenters would prefer to take cheap shots at the administration rather than take into account the countless terrorist attacks that were halted before they came to fruition. If you’d asked Americans about terrorism on September 10th, 2001, they’d have placed their worries somewhere behind the economy and tax cuts.<\/p>\n

So here we are closing in on seven years since the attack and there have been none on American soil, because the Bush Administration has made it too costly for terrorists to successfully prosecute their nefarious plans here or overseas. Instead they’ve targeted our allies, hoping to split us. Does that mean we won’t be attacked – no, certainly not. When you plug a hole in a dike, another leak springs, but the Bush Administration has done a yeoman’s job staying ahead of the leaks.<\/p>\n

And that’s their downfall – Americans have become complacent about the terrorist threat because there have been no attacks. Of course when it does happen again, it’ll be instantly blamed on the Bush Administration. But, did anyone truly believe we’d have gone seven years with no successful attacks on September 12th, 2001?<\/p>\n

I think it’s less boredom and more complacency, unfortunately, the only cure for that is another attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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