Back in March:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has an explanation about why she never mentioned the word "terrorism" during her first testimony on Capitol Hill.
Napolitano tells the German news site Spiegel Online that while she presumes there is always a threat from terrorism:
"I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur."
James Carafano, senior research fellow at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation says:
"By deliberately trying not to use the T word they run a serious political risk. If something does happen, they'll be accused of taking their eye off the ball and no amount of explanation after the fact will suffice."
Well something DID happen, and I don't see any evidence of accusations or "political risk," do you?
And how 'bout that statement that "no amount of explanation after the fact will suffice"? Obviously most people -including Carafano- were not pessimistic enough to think it could even be possible that there would be no explanation at all and that the nothingness would seem to "suffice" just fine.
Well, we'd better believe it now because that's just what's happening right in front of our very eyes. If we want to be realistic, I think we all need to get much more pessimistic.
In the meantime, I do hope you take some comfort from the fact that Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security has so successfully moved "away from [George W. Bush's] politics of fear, toward a [new and improved, hopey-changey] policy of
being prepared for all risks that can occur."
Ah, the Change... and more Change, and CHANGE after that.
Who can stop it once it starts?
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