America and the World Are Safer
WaPo reports,
The number of terrorist attacks worldwide increased nearly fourfold in 2005 to 11,111, with strikes in Iraq accounting for 30 percent of the total, according to statistics released by U.S. counterterrorism officials yesterday.
[…] Unlike those of previous years, the 2005 report included a “strategic assessment” of the war on terrorism, which concluded that while “al-Qaeda is not the organization it was four years ago,” the group was “adaptive and resilient . . . and important members of its core cadre remained alive and were adjusting to our operational tempo.”
Man, I’m sure glad we sacrified our civil liberties on the alter of safety. Who knows where’d we be if we hadn’t!
I think the word you were going for is “altar,” but the “alter of safety” makes for a good play on words.
America can take care of itself. What you should be really worrying about is the Israeli electorate and government who still act as if this is a local conflict.
“Man, I’m sure glad we sacrified our civil liberties on the alter of safety. Who knows where’d we be if we hadn’t!”
We would be getting killed in New York and Chicago instead of in Baghdad.