Stryker's good questions
In response to the response of commentati to the "Terror in the Skies" piece, Stryker has a pointed observation and probing questions:

... Most of the blog responses to the story from the conservative wing or the "single-issue voters" was one of fear. "Could this be a dry run?", "This is why we need to profile all Arab males!", "The security doesn't work, it's up to us!" were all common responses to the story, which is odd because most of them base their support of the current Administration on the very fact that it has done a lot to protect us from future terrorist attacks. If you believe that this Administration is our last, best hope for Victory, then why do you carry-on as if nothing has changed or improved in the past three years? How do you rationalize the paradox? Most of the responses to the panicked woman story were indictments against the current Administration on the very issue that they say represents their over-riding decision to support the Administration. It doesn't add up.

Most of you conservatives say we're at war, yet you'd hardly know it from your actions. You engage in the same stupid partisan bickering and arcane gamesmanship as in peacetime. You say this Adminstration is strong against terrorism, yet your very actions and words betray your confidence in it. You support it because it uses strong words and invaded Iraq. When you eliminate all of your paradoxes about this Administration, that's all you have left: you support this Adminstration because it talks tough and it invaded Iraq. Are you safer now than you were 3 years ago? You wouldn't know it by listening to you.

Most of you liberals say we're at war, but your war is against the President. You're more concerned about defeating Bush than you are about defeating the enemy. To you, Bush is the enemy. Just like your conservative brethren, you're more interested in political showmanship than doing anything to seriously help win this war. You oppose the President because he uses strong words and he invaded Iraq. Unlike the conservatives, you think that the security apparatus put in place after 9-11 does it's job too well and does it against the wrong people. Are you safer now than you were 3 years ago? Obviously not. You think we're on the verge of the Third Reich.

Do you want to know why I'm an independent? It's because you conservatives and liberals are a stupid and silly people.