Notice a pattern here?

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/6/3/12170/54233

Notice a pattern here?
by clammyc
Sun Jun 03, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM EST

As the constant drumbeat of the colossally stupid "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" and "we must be safer since we haven't been attacked since 9/11" memes fail to fade from discourse, a consistent pattern has emerged with respect to the "terror plots" (and I use the quotes since some of these are absolutely absurd as far as true plots go) which we are hearing about.

The latest one being the "alleged plot to destroy JFK airport" - it is yet another reminder of a few very basic things:

* The ability of these plots to actually be "carried out" is generally negligible (remember the one about taking down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch?);

* If we are to count instances of "true" domestic terrorism (you know, including suspicious packages at abortion clinics or school shootings or men driving around Maryland killing people at random), very few of these are linked to "those who we are fighting `over there'";

* Even lending credence to these so called "plots" as bona fide plots that could or would do a tremendous amount of damage, we most certainly are "fighting them over here" (whomever "them" or "they" are); and

* Most importantly they are being uncovered or "foiled" with REAL terror fighting tools - intelligence and law enforcement, not the military and indiscriminate bombings.

Back during the 2004 Presidential campaign, John Kerry made a comment that the overwhelmingly whipped-into-a-frenzy part of this country was not ready to hear:



Of course, this comment was as true as it was twisted out of context by the talking meatsticks and chest thumping chickenhawks. And just for the sake of argument, let's just assume that all of the "terror plots" were valid and feasible - just to show how ass-backwards so many people still are when it comes to what is going on in the world since "9/11 changed everything".

more...

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

Just as the Jihadists use the fear of Western "immorality" to stir the adherents into murder and mayhem, so do our "leaders" stir the public into the same. Of course, dropping bombs on people is "moral" while planting bombs is "immoral".

... Idiots are very predictable.

If they are "attacking us here" then fighting them there is failing, right? If they are attacking us here, we aren't being protected very well by our "benevolent dictator" are we? They are liars frauds and criminals.

And we haven't even left Iraq yet! That was my first comment when I heard about it.

People should take their blinders off and think about that. "They" are apparently already here--so we might as well leave Iraq to the Iraqis to fix up.

The * administration has done enough damage as it is, and are not competent enough to fix it.

Because even those people with no necks are waking up to the fact that there is a pattern going on here.

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