By its very nature, the war on terror will be fought mostly in the shadows. Unfortunately, politicians and bureaucrats MUST, at least in their own minds, be seen to be fighting the good fight. By the rules of The Game, perception is reality.

Unfortunately, we the public bear the brunt of the actions mandated by these authorities.

The British police break up a plot to bomb planes from London to the U.S., the threat level is raised to Red for the first time, liquids are banned on domestic flights and the National Guard is deployed to meet all flights from Great Britain. These, of course, are the flights that wouldn’t arrive is they were bombed.

Later, we learn that the cell had been infiltrated and that there was in fact never any chance that this cell’s plot would have been successful. This doesn’t stop every high level official in our government from hinting at the imminence of the threat and al-Qaeda links.

At least this time, the source of terror is not the bombers but our government.

The reality is that we have largely dismembered al-Qaeda over the past five years (see Declaring Victory) and following 9/11 the focus of al-Qaeda has shifted from the United States to Saudi Arabia to Iraq (see The Osama bin Laden I Know).

We are as safe as we’ve ever been since the emergence of Islamic Militancy on the international scene yet hardly a day goes by that our government doesn’t assert the danger that we face.

Of course, from the Democratic side of the aisle, statement after statement debunks the threat of Islamic terrorism for domestic political advantage and the administration asserts presidential authority where no such authority is necessary for Wiretaps and Data Mining.

The Fake War is all political and a dangerous distraction from The Real War.

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