Crying Wolf ... ?

Our current national chief executive holds office although the polls show that the majority of people in this country think his first term was a failure. He also has set records by having the lowest approval rating of any President elected for a second term.

I think he's aware of those facts, because he seems to be working at making himself indispensable.

I knew it was coming, but it came a bit earlier than I thought it would: Less than a month after the Iraq election, new "Terrorists are out to get us" reports were made to Congress and other (dis)interested parties. Is this supposed to make us want to keep the status quo in DC? That appears to be the case. It's that ol' "Don't change horses in the middle of the stream" approach.

But anyone who has lived with chronic fear will tell you that things reach a point where piling stuff up higher won't make a difference, or will actually end up 'flooding' the mind -- and the danger is simply discounted or ignored. It's not "crying wolf" because the danger is real, but when all that is offered is reminder after reminder of an unchanged and probably long term risk, we turn off and tune out. After so many sirens go past the window, we stop noticing them... that is human nature.

Is he -- or his father's advisory team -- smart enough to actually use that ploy, actually work to make us forget that we now have hundreds of thousands more enemies of 'America' and Americans that ever before, enemies created by invading, and killing, and considering women and children "collateral damage?" [I honestly think that is mere coincidence, the fact that his need to remain essential to America has caused him to approve an approach that could have the additional benefit of us forgetting to remember what's really going on.]

Dumb Move of The Week: Naming a career diplomat to manage, integrate data from, and prepare budgets for fifteen (or was it 18??) different intelligence agencies.

The greatest danger for this country is the citizenry turning a blind eye to the very real dangers this country is facing, both foreign and domestic.