Reply #26: You're both right... [View All]

because none of us has a working crystal ball.

We don't know how most people would react to another major attack.

Will Bush&Co be run out on a rail because their vaunted laws and wars didn't work?

Or, will people look to them for more of the same, because they haven't finished the job yet?

Everyone will get conflicting messages from the White House, Congress, Democrats, various curmudgeons of all parties, and the media.

They will use the extended version of Occam's razor and will respond to the message that is simplest and most reasonable at first glance.

It's that "meme" thing.

And we have not fully gotten the meme across that after two wars and PATRIOT, the world is NOT a safer place.