"Whacked out" with fear or possessing a "rational" fear? Sometimes it makes perfect sense to be fearful. The cold reality can hardly be dismissed - the terrorists have demonstrated they are capable of anything. And the Chechen separatists may have either opened their eyes to possiblities or borrowed from their playbook. How could we not take something like this seriously? Courage, after all, is not the absence of fear, but the overcoming of it.
It is simplistic to think or claim that people are being scared into voting for Bush. We need to understand the nature and magnitude of the threat, then decide for ourselves which man is more likely to meet and defeat that threat. Personally, I can't see how the threat can be overestimated.
Cheers,
Daiwa
