a little fear is good sometimes. if we had had some fear amongst the right people about arab pilots taking flight lessons in early 2001 - 9/11 may not have happened.
read that sentence above a few more times - that point crystallizes the "fear" issue. Fear can be a good thing. I fear alot of things, it changes my behavior on plenty of issues.
We're not talking a "little" fear here. This remains near hysteria. Facts be damned.
Paranoia does no one any good, and this killing of the DPW deal had everything to do with paranoia. In my opinion, we shamed ourselves in front of our enemies and left our beleaguered President to repair the damage.