Fear and Loathing

This is very nicely done.

The fundamental question is, at what point does the threat of occasional attacks -- even massive, horrific ones -- become less than the threat of the widespread erosion of constitutional rights, the daily wars fought on America's streets and in its homes and workplaces, the struggles of seniors and of young people raised in an environment of fear and inequality, the permanent destruction of environmental resources, and the threat of top-down economics serving too much top and not enough bottom?

Not to mention the part about taking over a country that didn't, and couldn't, attack us.