So, there's the problem. Personally, I blame TV for ruining people's attention spans, but that's neither here nor there. But now I ask, what's the solution? How does this administration keep people focused on what may still be a credible threat from abroad?
Some folks may very well assume that there is no threat from abroad any more, but that strikes me as just the sort of complacency that led to 9/11 in the first place. Eternal vigilance, and all that...
I can't help but wonder if this leak of the invasion plans for Iraq wasn't entirely accidental, and was a way of keeping everyone's eyes on the ball. Rummy seems genuinely peeved by it, but Rummy's a smooth character who could pull off "genuinely peeved" in public if he needed to, I think.
In any case, setting that aside, how does this administration keep people focused short of another Reichstag fire?
You can always tell your critics you cribbed it from the UN.