¿Qué guerra?

Victor Davis Hanson:

I have learned a great deal reading the responses to these essays, and often try to predicate the next entry on the concerns of the readers.

So one reoccurring topic is the controversy over just how serious is the threat of radical Islam. I get a great deal of furious mail, suggesting that Bush & Co. for a variety of reasons (fill in the blanks: oil, Halliburton, etc.) have created a bogeyman out of a few ragtag terrorists, and dangerously and gratuitously set us on a path of war in the Middle East.

Such critics are emboldened by the luxuries of relative world peace. Remember, we enter into year six without an attack on the United States homeland comparable to September 11. That fact, taken together with the absence of a clearly-identified enemy nation state, has suggested to many that there is hardly a present threat comparable to dangers posed by Nazis, fascists, Japanese imperialists, or Soviet and Chinese communists of the past.

But how true is that really?

Como decía hace unos meses, es paradójico que, lejos de ser considerado un éxito, el hecho de que no haya habido otro gran atentado terrorista en el territorio de EEUU juega en contra de la iniciativa de combatir esta metodología. Mucha gente percibe que la aparente calma que se vive es prueba de que el país no enfrenta un peligro inminente. Es muy duro decirlo, pero tal vez sólo reaccionemos ante un mega atentado con alguna arma de destrucción masiva, con miles de muertos y varios miles de millones de dólares en costos.

(visto en Instapundit)