[ejdrapes]

Dick Meyer, bite me!

[oceanview]

too bad one of those guys in Albany couldn't have fired a stinger missile up his a**.

[Always Right]

There was an assistant director of counterterrorism from the Clinton Administration who wrote a similar op-ed piece for the New York Times. It appeared in August 2001.....

[Puppage]

Has such a global monopoly on armed power ever existed?

Has any country in the HISTORY of the world done more to free people & give them a better life?

Who does this jerk think he is....Miss Cleo?

[finnman69]

Hey Dick!

This is the lead story on CBS news.

2 Nabbed In Alleged Missile Plot

Two leaders of an upstate New York mosque were snared in a sting operation by a federal agent posing as a terrorist trying to buy a shoulder-fired missile, officials say. More...

Think about that next time you fly out of LaGuardia or Reagan National.

[4MoreYearsOfBushGivesEnemyHell]

Was this Dicky`s opinion before 911 - People like this are a disease !!

[DCPatriot]

If there is an attack of sorts prior to the election, the liberals will be screaming "What has he been doing for the past 3 years?".

They want to have it both ways.

[Lexington Green]

We Are Not 'A Nation In Danger'

Tell that to the 3,000 dead of 9-11

[Flightdeck]

How quickly some forget.

[OldFriend]

If it wasn't so pathetic,I'd laugh.

Would he care to tell that to the wicked widows?

[Spok]

"we are, in fact, safe. Safe, at least, by any reasonable historic measure"

On 9/11, more civilians were slaughtered in America than had been since the Civil War. More Americans died on 9/11 than were killed at Pearl Harbor. Do we need a subway filled with sarin gas or a mushroom cloud over Chicago for this fool to 'get it'? I'm sure he sleeps better living in his little bubble. Only vigilance and sacrifice protects the fantasy world morons like this inhabit.

[DeFault User]

But there is no danger of the equivalent of war on our soil, of mass loss of life, of a crippled economy, disrupted civilian life and destabilized government.

No? A few refineries or power plants or a dam or two taken out wouldn't have a crippling effect on the economy or a disruption of the civilian population? Look what three buildings and four airplanes did.

[Bahbah]

"America does have enemies - crazy, sadistic, tenacious, growing and wily enemies...So the country is of course vulnerable to terrorism."

This is what the president is talking about, you blithering idiot, not a hurricane, a coup d'etat or an outbreak of the plague. He sets up all of these ridiculous straw men and uses that to say Bush's remark was off base.

[Semper Vigilantis]

"No other country on earth has military might even close to ours."

"And what good are arms, sir, if we are not allowed to use them?" (Fletcher Christian - Mutiny on the Bounty)

[Steve_Seattle]

There is no risk of a dictator, a Gestapo or a civil war.

Well, at least on that score, he disagrees with Bush's paranoid critics.

America does have enemies - crazy, sadistic, tenacious, growing and wily enemies . . . So the country is of course vulnerable to terrorism . . . But no one in government underestimates the country's vulnerability or the power of the unconventional enemy.

This, of course, contradicts what he says below.

This does not, however, add up to a nation in danger. It adds up to something that sounds too callous for politicians to say out loud. America is vulnerable to the tragedy and trauma of a terrorists attacks.

But there is no danger of the equivalent of war on our soil, of mass loss of life, of a crippled economy, disrupted civilian life and destabilized government.

Yes there is. The Islamists have repeatedly said they want to destroy us, destroy our economy, and kill as many of us as possible. After 9-11, how can anyone say that it is beyond their power to wreak enormous damage on this country?

[OneRatToGo]

We have one of the most stable governments in human history. There is no risk of a dictator, a Gestapo or a civil war.

If the 4th plane hadn't departed Newark late and then been downed by the impromptu civilian militia aboard then we wouldn't have had much of a government when the capital was taken out.

[Stellar Dendrite]

more proof of the absolute incompetence of todays "journalists".

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...And America is not at war...

Delusional.

[HenryLeeII]

We are safer from plague, pestilence, famine and weather than any of our ancestors ever were.

No s***, Sherlock, but that doesn't do a thing about the millions of crazed, murderous Islamicists that are bent on killing us and imposing their intolerant, backward, 8th-Century hate-filled "religion" on us!

[Phantom Lord]

I think America in 2004 is about as far removed from fundamental danger as any nation in history has ever been.

So the author supports President Bush and agrees with him that his decisive military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq have indeed made us safer?!?!?

I would venture a confident no.

[kittymyrib]

Hey, Muhammed...if you're looking for a target that will get a lot of attention, there's a building in NYC made of black rock that has a big eye on the front.