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because anyone that does wants us to lose the war, supports terrorists, and wants your children to be murdered by a suicide bomber
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Has anyone actually used this line on you? Has anyone actually used this line on anyone?
I get your gist, but I think it's misplaced. In 2003 people were saying that it's tremendously unfair that Bush gets to create his image of a war-time President. I pointed out that it's all about the prosecution of that war. Now if Rudy wins and there is terrorist action -- he'd have approval ratings like Bush has now. Similarly, if Obama wins and doesn't produce change -- if Ron Paul wins and doesn't gut the Federal Government overnight -- deep, heartfelt campaign promises like these can be broken, but only if the general narrative changes.
As for the actual threat of foreign terrorism, it sounds as if it not a concern to you. This I would like to probe. Do you figure it's just not going to happen, that this was a one-off and simply unlikely to happen again, like a three-hundred-year volcano threat? Do you believe that the threat has actually been neutralized -- in which case, thank you George W Bush? Or do you come from the school of thought which says these things may become inevitable but that we can enter some sort of yoga calm where the national psyche just absorbs them and moves on about its day unfazed?