Well said, although I'd point out that it's easier to see the screams as over reacting when you have not been on the rollercoaster, but waiting in line.
There are those here who think that our accuracy rate is "dismal". I'm going to take an optimistic view and state that attacks didn't happen on occasion because we were RIGHT, and they were stopped in time. To my mind that would be success.
I said our accuracy rate is dismal, and it is, and I pray to God that it always will be dismal and that none of the stuff that we predict or speculate about will ever become a reality. We will probably never know whether an attack was prevented because of information posted on this thread. I would like to think that we've made a difference, but even if we haven't, yet, we might in the future, and that by itself is an incentive to keep doing what we do here.