“The real danger to…
“The real danger to the United States is that the threat of AQ will force us to abandon our freedoms, making us less than what we are or could be.”
This gives too much credit to Al-Qaeda’s neferious powers and puts too little blame where it belongs: on the Bush gang and their running dogs.
Al Qaeda cannot “force us to abandon our freedom” without conquering the country and imposing a totalitarian state of their own — something which they are certainly in no position to do. As far as freedom in America is killed, it will have been murdered by the free choice of fanatics and opportunists within the United States, using Al-Qaeda and the War Effort as an excuse.
Furthermore, what will have happened is not that “we abandoned our freedom.” What will have happened is that one group of people (viz. said fanatics and opportunists) have willingly taken another group of people’s (viz. their victims’) freedom. I’m sure that after the Counter-Revolution, if it comes, the freedom of folks like Alberto Gonzales and John Negroponte will be doing just fine.
Anticopyright.