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okay. if the terrorists stuff a 4yr old child full of explosives and blow me up, they win. I give up. not being groped in public is worth being blown up.
by munin 15y ago
okay. if the terrorists stuff a 4yr old child full of explosives and blow me up, they win. I give up. not being groped in public is worth being blown up.
- tkahn6 15y agoI don't know if you're being facetious but attaching bombs to children is nothing new. It happened in Vietnam and it happens in Iraq.
- waqf 15y agoAnd when "intelligence" suggests that it might happen in the US, will they start banning children from planes?
- sanderjd 15y agoWhat a different and more wonderful world this would be if President Bush's speech-writers had put together a more pithy variant of your attitude for his speech after 9/11! But I think a policy of courage would have been wildly less popular than that of fear proved to be.
- rhizome 15y agoI don't agree that bush's policy of fear was popular.
- wpietri 15y agoI don't think people who weren't afraid liked it. But people who were afraid (or could be made afraid) seemed to be pretty fond of it. Because the policy wasn't one of pure fear; it was one of security through fear.
- rhizome 15y agoI don't agree that "popular" is an appropriate word to describe that state of affairs, since popularity implies choice.
- sanderjd 15y agoPolitical popularity is hard to quantify. But for whatever they are worth, I have three points in support of my claim that President Bush's policy was (and is) "popular", one factual, one which I believe to be true but have no data for, and one anecdotal: 1) President Bush won reelection quite easily, 2) The "War on Terror" had and continues to have bipartisan support, while many other policies introduced since it began (such as the actual wars) have been wildly polarizing, and 3) In my personal discussions, I have found it very difficult to persuade most people that our response to 9/11 was anything but correct and justified.