Billmon: The Far Enemy

Our job is not merely to recite our political program to the people . . . (we must) transform the political mobilization for the war into a regular movement. This is a matter of the first magnitude on which the victory primarily depends.

Mao Zedong
Quoted in: The Evolution of War: The Fourth Generation
Marine Corps Gazette
September 1994

As part of its saturation bombardment of the airwaves over the past several weeks, the Cheney Administration has repeatedly taken credit for the fact that no terrorist attack has occurred on American soil since 9/11/2001. This, the propaganda maestros insist, is tangible evidence that the good guys are winning -- although, of course, that certainly doesn't mean the huddled masses can relax and do something rash like vote for a Democrat.

As the catch phrase goes: "While America is safer, we are not yet safe" (and if Karl Rove has anything to say about it, we never will be.)