You'll have to forgive me if I wax political for a moment. I'm normally not a very politically inclined person, which is to say that I have convictions but am not confindent enough to back most of them up. I see politics as something necessary and universal. Something that I should either become good at or give up trying to function in society. But I dislike the aftertaste that comes with the connotation of politics in modern society.

I'm mad about the current status of the US's War on Terror. A quote from Dick Cheney, "The prospect of another attack against the United States [is] just as real...as it was on September 12. [It's] not a matter of if, but when." Newsweek, which is normally a great magazine, one of the best, ran an update on this topic this week. The problem is with the government's attitude. Apparently George knew some months before September 11th, 2002 that there was the possibility of a terrorist attack on America. And he didn't take enough precautions to prevent two planes from crashing into the World Trade Towers. Now, I cordially dislike W. in most ways, but I don't see that he did anything wrong here. "The possibility of a terrorist attack on America"?!!! No shit! I would like to know one time in our history, particularly since the end of World War I, when there wasn't some idiot, idiot group, or idiot nation who didn't hate the US of A enough to attack us.

Cheney thinks that the possibility of another attack is as real as it was on Sept. 12? Probably. But that's the same probability that it was on December 8, 1941. Or on April 20, 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing. America is going to be hit again some time in the future. If we're lucky, that hit will be another sixty years down the road. Should we maintain a constant state of vigilance until that unforseen day? Well.... in a perfect world, yes. But if it were a perfect world, there wouldn't be attacks. The point is, that living like something bad might happen is a stupid way to live. They take normal people who feel like everything they do might kill them and commit them. Unless there is a specific warning about a specific date and specific way of an attack, everything that the FBI, CIA, and White House hears is not worth it to report.

I don't think this will last too long. I remember after the Colombine Shooting, every minor report in every school across the nation was cause for evacuation, bomb squad, and arrests. But after a few years, nothing big happened and things calmed down. This is just the government covering their ass.... just in case. The democrats are attacking the republicans, the republicans are attacking the democrats, and the media isn't just fueling this fire, but roasting marshmellows on it as well. Smores anyone?