That is my argument with the liberals. When I ask them what they think the target for another terrorist attack will be, they of course say a large city. Then, I ask where the liberals live and they have the same answer.
That is when I tell them they had better support the WOT or get ready to lose many of their voters. I told one lib that if we would lose, LA, San Fran, NY, Boston, Chicago, etc., that would eliminate many democrat voters. They have yet to come up with any argument to contradict my point of view.
Only the bad guys are us.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(TV_series) for a well thought out view of the TV show.
You might read
Pat Frank’s “Alas, Babylon”
O.Scott Cards “Folks on the Fringe”
The very good “Lucifer’s Hammer” by Larry Niven or even such classics a “Panic in the Year Zero” or any of the RAH classics (Fifth Column, Starship Troopers, etc).
Nuclear annihilation or at least a bad pasting has been around in the US fiction market since before the bomb. (Money Quote) Politicians pay as much attention to it as they do you (collective us) - none at all.