Reply #11: I agree with your summation, however [View All]

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I disagree with the overall tone of your message. Yes, the threat of terrorist attacks is not new and we should be vigilant. But that vigilance can be best served by our law enforcement and intelligence agencies just as it has been, for the most part, right up to 9/11, while continuing to engage in diplomacy, which has proven fruitful time and time again.

As to whether or not there are "efforts to downplay or explain away the threat", I respectfully disagree. If simple facts (such as the fact that there has not been a single terrorist captured of the supposed 5000 Bush claimed were here in sleeper cells) are what "downplays" the threat, where is the issue?

And as for the "ongoing" wars in the Middle East, it would seem to me that most of that conflict, ie: the Israel/Hezbollah 34-day War, is provoked by the US/Isreal alliance and their foreign policy objectives, which are the same objectives espoused by PNAC.