Re-Thinking The Terror War – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
File this one under “no shit?”
The great unanswered question of the last six and a half years is: why haven’t we been attacked again? There are logically two – not necessarily exclusive – possibilities: our defense has been getting much better; their offense was over-rated. I suspect that technology, good police work, and plenty of heroic stories that neither you nor I know about have made a difference. But seven years is a long time. And Bush is not exactly Mr Competence, is he?Have we misread the world – and over-estimated the threat – even more profoundly than we realize? That is the question.
A small band of cave dwelling bomb throwers was never an existential threat to the US. On the other hand, the reaction to terrorism by the Bush administration most definitely is a threat to the principles this nation has always stood for.
