[lbo-talk] Any thoughts on the latest all terror all the time drama from today?

Stephen Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Thu Aug 10 13:42:42 PDT 2006


Any thoughts on the latest terror drama being played out on TV and at the airports? Interesting timing if nothing else. The networks and radio are in all terror all the time overtime mode with warnings and discussions about liquids, toothpaste, cosmetics, carry-on do's and don'ts and then we've got the usual political fallout:

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) -- Sen. Joe Lieberman set out on his go-it-alone re-election campaign Thursday and seized on the terror arrests in Britain to argue that his Democratic opponent, Ned Lamont, does not fully understand the danger facing the nation.

Lieberman's stop in Waterbury was his first public event since losing Tuesday's Democratic primary, dismissing his campaign staff and launching his independent bid.

He seized on the terror plot in Britain to criticize Lamont's opposition to the war in Iraq.

''I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -- more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War,'' Lieberman said.

''If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again.''



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