White House: Five years after the September 11 attacks, the United States is safer

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Yeah, like in the 60's: Nuclear incoming, take cover under your desk.

Seems like sound advice to me - after all, if 6 inches of stained pine can protect against a nuclear blast, the government sure wasted a lot of money on those lead-lined subterranean bunkers. Might just as well told people to go and sit in their garden shed with a paper bag over their head.

Ah, those were the days when people were buying up gas masks and duct tape.

Things haven't changed that much you know. In the weeks and months after 9/11, some enterprising fellows offered a nice line of "terror survival kits".

I believe Dubbya would call them fine, young entrepreneurs.

[Fischkoepfin 1]

It's probably part of the propaganda effort to remind people that we're supposed to be grateful but live in fear.

But as long as our ports are almost free from security screenings, our chemical and nuclear plants are not protected, and our food supply is centralized, we will not be safe. Actually we're much less safe in these regards. And I'd be surprised if the report spent any significant time discussing these gaping holes...

This is not about actually discussing anything. It is, as your opening sentence says, about the fact that we need to know that the government is doing a heck of a job making us safer but that we still need to be afraid, very afraid. Which is why we still need this government to make us even safer. Doesn't that give you all the warm and fuzzies you need?

I wish.

I'll feel warm and fuzzy when the same people who are defending the governments track record in every aspect will start to realize that they've been had. And I will feel safer when there's a government not banking on fear...