I´m not really known amongst my friends for any sympathy for left wing radicals like Michael Moore, but I´m slowly starting to agree with him that this whole perpetual state of fear is just designed to keep people stupid and scared.
In political terms, the phrase "war on terrorism" has become somewhat of a runaway freight train at full speed: unstoppable.
Any critisism is immediately labeled as "unpatriotic" and the media have jumped on the runaway gravy train as they blow up the smallest story into a "narrowly escaped death" drama.
I do not doubt that there are some fanatic loonatics out there, but I don´t think that the current Orwellian approach of keeping the public scared is gonna work in the long run.