Reply #10: Agreed about RW stupid, but disagreed about recent scares [View All]

[Psephos]

One of the fundamental tenets of asymmetrical warfare (technical term for terrorists' approach) is that people have short attention spans and become complacent if nothing happens for a while.

Those who would attack this country see that as a weakness that can be exploited as long as they are patient and plan well. We know that because they have said it explicitly. Such statements were a primary recruiting tool for bin Laden in the 1990s.

I don't know how many of the recent scares are based on real information and how many are politically inspired, but I do know that there are Islamofascists who would detonate a nuke in an American city (or undertake a similar high-profile attack) if they could. Whether or not this can be done I leave for others to debate. In any case, complacency can only encourage the nutcases. I prefer to see occasional reminders in the media that there are people working to detect and interdict any attackers...it sends the right message.

Peace.