In today’s Charlotte Observer, former Philadelphia Inquirer editor Walker Lundy breaks out the old ‘terrorists have already won’ argument that was popular among liberals during the Bush years:
You should actually be worrying more about every-day issues that are greater threats to you than a terrorist.
While foreign terrorists have killed no one in the U.S. in the eight years since 9-11, 3.5 million Americans died from lung cancer, 3.2 million from obesity-related health issues, 350,000 from lack of proper health care, 275,000 in auto accidents, 200,000 from drug overdoses, 125,000 were murdered, 25,000 from drowning and 250 from lightening.
Instead of worrying about crazed terrorists, maybe we ought to stop smoking, eating poorly, doing without health care, driving, taking drugs and swimming.
That’ll show those terrorists.
Needless to say Lundy doesn’t explore exactly why foreign terrorists have killed no one in the U.S. over the last eight years, which, according to President Obama and the mainstream media, was pure hell.
But there’s a part of me that actually agrees with Lundy. Let’s be honest —-is Greensboro, North Carolina ripe for a terrorist attack? Methinks not. So it probably is more likely that I’ll buy it on Interstate 40 than at the hands of a terrorist.
Which is why we need to figure out how comfortable we are with another terrorist attack. I’ll argue that a major terrorist attack on top of this economy would indeed be devastating for our country. and when “man-made disasters” occur, people want to know why someone didn’t do something to stop it. But this time that someone is President Obama, who supposedly was going to make everything right with the world.
With that in mind, note that the president renewed parts of the Patriot Act, including “court-approved roving wiretaps that permit surveillance on multiple phones.”
