If you didn’t know better, you’d think the terror alert that has New York City and Washington, DC in virtual lockdown right now is the first there’s been since 9/11. In fact, those alerts have been spooking us with annoying regularity ever since – forcing us to react like puppets on al-Qaeda’s strings to one phony terror threat after another. And the police seem to like nothing more than showing off their big guns along the streets of NYC and DC, acting as if they are soldiers patrolling the streets of Kabul and Beirut.
Of course, one of these days one of these threats will finally materialize. But I’d bet my life that the big bang will occur not in NYC or here in DC, but in some other area of the United States that government officials seem to think has been inoculated against terrorist attacks.
More to the point, though, given the hundreds of billions Western countries have wasted on post-9/11 security measures (not to mention the lives that have been lost in two stupid wars or the living hell traveling has become), is there any doubt that al-Qaeda has already won the war on terror…?