If you're not afraid of a terrorist attack by militant Jihadists, you're a fool

[mikehiggins]

90. I used to live in New York City Everything there was dark and dirty...

Well, not really, no matter what the Mama's and Poppa's wrote. There are lots of wonderful things in the City but me and my family can't be counted among them anymore. I spent most of my life in NYS and forty years or so in NYC but enough is enough. I helped build the WTC and I worked on the rubble when it came down. I'm happy to mention to people that the worst terrorist attack in American history took place during the George Bush administration, despite them having many warnings OBL really, really wanted to attack the USA. That being said, there is really no reason to be afraid of another terror attack in NYC as opposed to ANY other place in this nation. Look what one guy supposedly just did in Chicago.

So, yeah, its foolish not to be concerned about terrorism in the USA ( I absolutely refuse to refer to this nation as the "homeland", like we were a bunch of Nazis or something ) but the only way to be confident "it won't happen here" is by not being "there". This nation is widely vulnerable and there is really no way to change that. Think about what people are saying by shopping in the Mall of America (in Minnesota ?). I was there about two months after 9/11 and it was crowded with Xmas shoppers. What a perfect place for terrorism. Still is. Should we stop shopping, stop our lives, stop sending our kids to school?

More kids have been killed by lone wolf psychos since 9/11 than by Al Quida or ISIS. We haven't been willing to accept the need to limit access to guns in the face of Columbine and the rest. How can we ever think we can be safe from terrorism from overseas? Still, if you want to live in a major American city you just have to shrug your shoulders and take the risk.

Me, I find Taos just fine.

So, yeah, be concerned about ISIS or whatever but keep this in mind: when I was a young boy I was afraid that Godzilla was going to come get me. Later on I realized that since I was living in NYC at the time the odds were I wasn't going to get squashed by a 90 meter lizard. Today our government would have us believe Godzilla is right around the corner. It ain't so.

The real danger is how far the Lindsey Grahams and John McCain's are willing to go to keep us safe, and what it will cost us if we let them get away with it.

Just my point of view, of course. I could be wrong.