Rebutting the Politics of Fear

I maybe morally confused, as Secretary Rumsfeld suggests, but what we have here this week is a return to the politics of fear. It's not to say that we face difficult days ahead and that a radicalized Islam is at the heart of the current issues, but by focusing on this struggle the President wishes to turn our focus away from other important issues of the day, such as global warming, an energy crisis that feeds the insurgencies abroad, health crises, and much more. If we are to believe what we've been hearing, Democrats and other critics of the administration have stuck their heads in the sand while our gallant knight in shining armor is out saving the day. The reality is that failed American policies are stirring up hornets nests that have made the world less safe today than before 9-11.

The black and white apocalypticism that has become American policy can only lead to more disaster. But unfortunately I don't see much changing in the months to come - -unless we as an American people say no to the harbingers of fear and elect prophetic realists to office.