If all of it, or any part of it had worked we would not be talking about the guy with the bomb in his shorts.

All the so called security measures we are subject to mean nothing, because the terrorists or even crazies just find ways around them.

It’s all to make us feel good and not to really protect us, and we are so foolish we can’t see that.

Well, if that’s what you mean by linky, anyway.

The USA MSM, goes in hyperdrive when the word terrorism is mention.

The USA military industrial complex has made Islamic Terrorist a bigger threat then the RUSSIANS in the cold war.

We are spending a TRILLION dollars a year to fight an enemy without TANKS, WAR SHIPS, FIGHTER AIR CRAFT, SUBS, etc.

This has got to be one of the biggest SCAMS ever pulled.

That Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil is somehow a vast and grave threat to American life and prosperity:

If, every single month, ~3,500 people die in auto-accidents compared to ~3,200 in almost 40 years due to Islamic terrorism in the U.S.; then Islamic terrorism is not a vast and grave threat to life.

If, every single month, ~3,000 people die of the flu and it’s complications compared to ~3,200 in almost 40 years due to Islamic terrorism in the U.S.; then Islamic terrorism is not a vast and grave threat to life.

If, every single month, ~1,250 people die from run-of-the-mill homicide compared to ~3,200 in almost 40 years due to Islamic terrorism in the U.S.; then Islamic terrorism is not a vast and grave threat to life.

If, in 25 years, specious fiscal/monetary policy and de facto regulatory capture can create ~$22,000 Billion (in 2008 Dollars) in economic harm, and induce a global economic contagion, compared to ~$84 Billion in almost 40 years due to Islamic terrorism; then Islamic terrorism is not a vast and grave threat to prosperity.

Despite a list of staggering mortality numbers that total almost 2.5 Million Americans every year, and economic losses over 260 times more severe than those caused by Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil; we manage to soldier on and find all new ways to kill ourselves (and each other) and throw our prosperity to the wind on a regular basis.

If one provides even a modicum of objectivity, our obsession with the “terrorist threat” moves from seeming simply imprudent to outright paranoid conspiracy.
9/11 was special in one way, and one way only; in that it broke us (ever so briefly) from the secure geopolitical insularity brought about by being flanked by two massive bodies of water, and bordered by two largely compatible and stable nation-states.

It fits here nicely.

They will act independently. A few serious, successful attacks on American or Western interests and what then. A non-declaration of war and greater, more intense strikes yielding another war.

How convenient that Yemen is at the entrance to the Red Sea, virtually half-way between the Canal and the Persian Gulf, among its other attributes. A more intense, public campaign against Yemen would seem to be a dream policy for those who want more war, war instead of reverting to pre-Bush, jaw, jaw diplomacy and enhanced law enforcement.