With everyone so jumpy they get scared when someone farts too loud haven't the terra-ists won?

[NNN0LHI]

No one needs to ever attack us again. How many people in this country will die at an early age from maladies brought on by the constant drumbeat from our government (and the Dems are just as bad about this as the Repugs) and the media that someone wants to attack them? A lot I bet you.

Don

[Connonym]

1. Especially since all the hoops we're jumping through offer a fake sense of security

We're willing to give up our rights for the illusion of security. It isn't even REAL security because we're just as vulnerable (if not more so because of our foreign policies) as we've ever been.

I personally think the terrorists have already won. The death toll in terrorism isn't the goal. The body count is secondary (except to the degree that people are more impressed by a higher body count) to the real goal of scaring the shit out of people to the degree that they alter their lives. By that standard, they have most certainly won.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

2. Excellent point. And consider at all we've lost since - But take heart!

Our wellbeing and the integrity of our inalienable rights are not the official criteria by which we measure the success of the terrists, it's how much we fly and buy, and as long as we fly and buy, the terrists haven't won. </sarcasm>

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Take heart and BEANO.

fly and buy, indeed. What were the pResident's first words after 9/11? Go shopping?

[rkc3]

4. Go Shopping!

Great words from a great leader.