Letters to the Editor
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You make a common fundamental mistake in your argument
You make at best a highly debatable at worst outright fictional statement at the start of your article and present it as fact :
"Should there be another major attack on U.S. soil, even Democrats suspicious of Republican hype would snap into survivalist mode, where defense of hearth and home is an elemental instinct. What Bush and company puff as the "war on terror" is no mirage: radical jihadism, exacerbated by the arrogant stupidity of our invasion of Iraq, does indeed threaten the very existence of Western civilization, whose peace and prosperity depend on a complex infrastructure and communications system vulnerable to catastrophic disruption by small bands of ruthless saboteurs."
After having established this highly dubious premise as a fact you go on to make all sorts of flawed conclusions. This is the same lame and misleading tactic used by most of the right wing hacks. It doesn't work any better for you.