So, in essence, the terrorist bombings in Eqypt, London, Lebanon, and Iraq serve to support the Republican Party?


>SNIP
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>>I feel just as safe as I did before 9/11. It's all attitude and how you choose to live your life. I am more likely to be killed driving to or from work on our freeways than I am by a terrorist strike. You can choose to be cynical, unsafe, and hole-up in your house. If you do, then you are virtually dead anyway. As for the 1 person, you are grossly under-exagerating. I am assuming you are referring to Saddam. You do not count any of the other high ranking terrorists captured or killed? Saddam's now 2 very dead sons? etc...
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>I think you have the exactly right approach, Mark.
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>There is a big problem, though.
>Our politicians (U.S., U.K., most of Europe, here and beyond) have found that making FEAR the central issue of everything they do pays huge benefits in terms of re-election, wild spending (for their cronies), burying other important issues and generally keeping themselves in the spotlight.
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>They've turned "every life is invaluable" into an art form to justify wider powers and extravagant spending. More importantly, if the subject starts to shift to real useful things for "the people" they get the media to blow some small event way out of proportion to divert the focus back to "security".
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>Instead of exploiting issues that worked towards delivering "the dream" to the people, they are now promoting a nightmare that they want everyone to understand they are on top of and will do everything in their power to keep at bay.
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>I think the people are being severely short-changed. Any "nightmare scenario" would affect less than .00001 of the people yet we are all repeatedly told that each of our lives is at serious risk.