Early Heads Up, But Not About The Election

by tristero

Everyone will want to read, should it get online, and it should, Max Rodenbeck’s article, “How Terrible Is It?” in The New York Review of Books.

Essentially, the answer, based on expert analysis by terrorism scholars and Rodenbeck’s study of Bush Administration documents, is that the issues are more complicated than the simplistic public discourse in the US can manage to explain. Furthermore, without minimizing the threat from terrorists in the slightest, the article makes it quite clear that the threat was manageable without the hysteria Bush and Co. generated. In fact, their “bone-headed” response unquestionably made the situation more of a mess than it was or had to be.

I was also happy to see confirmed my opinion that nuclear terrorism is a cause, of course, for concern, but that Perle’s loopy panic on the subject is quite uncalled-for.

Now, back to your election obsessing!