[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

But the minute you play that card [fear card], you are now taking the issues and the debates out of the rational and logical and reasonable and sensible and calm into the emotional and hysterical.

The whole aim of practical politics," wrote H.L. Mencken in 1920, "is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

[Emilio Largo]

Have you read 'STATE OF FEAR'?