The cry of "wolf!" over terror: A comment on the plane "plot"

Richard Marsden, The Business of Emotions

If President Bush would like us to take these Terror Alerts seriously—re the alleged air terror plot in England—he should stop making political capital out of them. Do we really need yet another reminder that: This nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation. Well, no we don't, but he and the Republicans do. So, too, does Tony Blair who must face a back-bench revolt over his position over Israel and Lebanon when he returns from his vacation in the Bahamas. And Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, no doubt would like his mind taken off his rapidly diminishing credibility. Above all, this terrible trio would appreciate anything that diverts attention from the grotesque spectacle of the Anglo-Israeli-American destruction of Lebanon...

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