MR. GIBSON: Brian Ross there. Well, Osama bin Laden, as he pointed out, has said it is his duty to try to get nuclear weapons. Al Qaeda has been reconstituted and re-energized in the western part of Pakistan. And so my general question is: How aggressively would you go after al Qaeda leadership there? ...
An asteroid could slam into the Earth and wipe out life as we know it. A hurricane could flood a major American city. A terrorist could detonate a nuclear weapon on U.S. soil — or anywhere else in the world.
Quick: Which one of those events has never happened? Which of those events have U.S. policymakers and pundits selected as a basis for policymaking?
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