Open Thread

I’m noticing numerous comments suggesting that we should hunker down and prepare for a terrorist attack because Bush’s poll numbers are so bad.

Three questions:

Why is it okay to make such a prediction, but considered crazy to speculate about 9/11?

If all these predictions of a terror attack come true, will anybody notice that there were thousands of predictions that such an attack would take place for purely political reasons?

What does it say about the ‘uniter not divider’ and the competency and thoroughness of the 9/11 commission, that we have such an incredible level of mistrust about the basic morality of our opponents?

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.