Are there more american hating terrorists in the world today than yesterday? If you ask a Bush Republican ( I have ) they will tell you." No, we've killed a lot of them already." But if you ask anyone else they will say "I'm concerned. Very concerned."
Democrats haved failed to effectively wield this concern against the cons and the republican media machine. Having a way to quantify 'threat level' objectively would take the legs out of the 'we are safer today' fantasy and also supply a simple heuristic for candidates come November - one that features diplomacy and hard, indisputable (even for cons) facts.
Furthermore, it makes a mockery of the imaginary, politically driven threat level used by cons as a 'fear stick' - which, as you know, will likely show up hear again come elections.
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