Reply #1: Reflect on the consequences [View All]

had anything happened while this sad show was going on. No one EVER would have gotten over the suspicion about the Chinese, as ludicrous and irrational as their official or unofficial involvement might be and the later uncovering of the mistake.

It is the atmosphere of mess that IS the danger, part of the "fear itself" syndrome where chicken little is wright about danger and counter intuitive about the intelligence AND the proper action.

We are trapped in a spiral of madness without any concrete results of making this country actually safer in any conceivable way. This is structured panic and anything but "Homeland Security".

Duct tape was funny. The situation itself is horrendous and apt to turn very bad with no possible way to repair the damage of bad intelligence much less human casualties.

We will die stupid, study it stupid, mythologize it stupider, kill and be killed like sharks in a instigated frenzy.