I seem to recall a time when something called "veracity" was valued here in the course of debate. Then came the mantra of "everything changed after 9/11", and that seems to justify just about anything.
The terrorost say "We don't like you, or your govenrment, or your way of life. But by hijacking a few airplanes and flying them into the right buildings, we can change everything. We can make you afraid. We can make you give up you traditions of individual liberty, we can make your Constitution irrelevant."
I'm not willing to give them that.
I agree.