I think they can use propaganda to ferment a greater fear yes. it is new and unknown. Their propaganda around "terrorists" is wearing thin. Today people are

I think they can use propaganda to ferment a greater fear yes. it is new and unknown. Their propaganda around "terrorists" is wearing thin. Today people are massively less fearful of the "big bad terrorist" then they were 10 years ago. They are less accepting of the military story that some goat farmer in a dessert is a "threat to national security" that needs a response by multi billion dollar weapons platforms So now they have two competing treks the classic external threat which was always other nations but is harder and harder to sell to the people these days so the external threat has to become VERY external Then you have the growing propaganda around internal threats, aka "Domestic Extremism" however it is very hard military make the case the American People are their enemy. The FBI sure, other paramilitary "law enforcement" sure, but that actual official military.. that is a sticky wicket. Though I from the recent report by Glenn Greenwald it seems maybe they are going to try that as well...