Well I hope one choice I never make is jumping at my own shadow. Since 9-11 a lot of people are justifying their paranoia (and their informing on fellow Americans) on the grounds that "we're all at terrible risk." Well, we're not at terrible risk and people who think that have been watching too much TV. In any case we have far less to fear from Saddam Hussein than we do from fellow Americans who seem to think there's no freedoms not worth sacrificing for an (infinitessimal) increase in security.