The beauty of Atrios’s style lies in something Bill O’Reilly likes to call ‘pithiness.’ Duncan gets right to the point.
Not Exactly Surprising
But if you think that using the threat of terrorism for political purposes would be more interesting to the Villagers than Michelle Obama’s shorts, you’re probably wrong.
And just so it’s clear: using the threat of terrorism to try to achieve political goals is, you know, what terrorists do.
He’s referring to this:
[Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom] Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was “blindsided” by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over…
I would argue that the Bush response to terrorism in late 2001 to 2005 was to terrorize the American people with threats of imminent widespread death.
