A Nation of Chickenshits

Fareed Zakaria, via the Dish:

Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. government has created or reconfigured at least 263 organizations to tackle some aspect of the war on terror. Thirty-three new building complexes have been built for the intelligence bureaucracies alone, occupying 17 million square feet – the equivalent of 22 U.S. Capitols or three Pentagons. The largest bureaucracy after the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs is now the Department of Homeland Security, which has a workforce of 230,000 people.
The rise of this national security state has entailed a vast expansion in the government's powers that now touch every aspect of American life, even when seemingly unrelated to terrorism. Some 30,000 people, for example, are now employed exclusively to listen in on phone conversations and other communications within the United States.
In the past, the U.S. government has built up for wars, assumed emergency authority and sometimes abused that power, yet always demobilized after the war. But this is, of course, a war without end.

He goes on to say we look like scared, fearful losers.  I must agree.  But what do you expect from a bunch of people who are so scared of being victims of crime that they feel they must be able to carry their guns into church?  Relax, you damn freaks.  If somebody wanted to get the jump on you, you're never going to get that gun out in time, you'd be dead.  Terrorism is the least of my worries when it comes to death.  Farm accident ranks much higher.