[riri]

re: Your post 22. I think you are right on the money. Outside of the beltway it will be forgotten in a week. I was in the bank yesterday and two tellers were talking. They had CNN on the television and one teller said something to the effect of "I wish they would just catch this guy, I'm sick of hearing about it" The other telling, inquiring what she was talking about said something to the effect of "Oh, is that that "I am god" guy". These were like women 30 years old.

Yep, these are your fellow citizens, scary isn't it? Now you see why the cover-ups are so easy.

[Quilla]

And I'd bet they both voted for Gore.

[bcoffey]

"Outside of the beltway it will be forgotten in a week."

I agree, human nature the way it is. So, for maximum terror, these jerks will pack it up in DC (after the 9 for 11 sequence) and move on to another area to start up again. (I pray I am wrong.)

[bonfire]

100% on target. I was working at the front desk of our H.S. last week and mentioned the sniper to a teacher. He said, "Oh, I don't watch any of that. I find it too disturbing." This was your average middle class white guy. People either don't want to know, or are too busy to care...as long as it doesn't happen in their neighborhood.

[js1138]

Outside of the beltway it will be forgotten in a week.

You can look at that several ways. One way is that it's difficult to terrorize America, and this is good. We get bored by routine death -- 20,000+ traffic deaths a year, more than one a day per state, day in and day out, year after year. (Of course the more populated states have considerably more than one per day)

But Americans will not tolerate routine terrorism. It will just make us mad and we will kick some butt. We have the technology to dry up the funding and de-motivate the nations supporting this. One by one. All it will take is motivation on our part. If the dems think they got rolled on Iraq, wait until the average American is afraid to go outside.