Good film, and I appreciate the insight. I watched a BBC Film called “The Power of Nightmares” The entire purpose of the film was to explain how the entire threat of terrorism was totally overhyped. There was a blatant bias and the narrow scope of this film by showing it only during the Bush Administration time period, but think about it, if the 9/11 Hijackers didn’t need to use Afghanistan to carry out their attacks, and weren’t shown to be there, then what was the point? Also, the film explained a great deal of issues that were overhyped, such as the “dirty bomb” or the real proportion of the U.S. Population that actually gets fragged by terrorists as opposed to domestic criminal activity. All-in-all pretty informative, but I walked away from the film with the general fact that the actual threat from Afghanistan alone, unless there is some information that someone can really spit out, isn’t really all that much of a threat, or at least gets overhyped on the security measures, anyways.
I’ll have to see if I can find a copy of that film to watch. It is true that, statistically speaking, terrorism is a much smaller threat to a US citizen’s life than any other number of other things (like, for example, the risk of an auto accident). But you also need to consider the psychological and economic impact of terrorism. When you do that, you have to admit that it’s a pretty big deal. For example, a few incidents could make people afraid of air travel. This could have a devastating impact on our economy.