Great lines of the day

At Hullabaloo. Glenn Greenwald writes about cowardice and fear -- how the one-note Bush administration still wants Americans to be afraid, be very afraid:

There is no more important goal than exposing and undermining the cowardly and exaggerated fear which lies at the core of the Bush agenda . . . if it really were the case that Islamic terrorism constituted the sort of imminent, civilization-ending threat which the Administration has spent the last four years drumming into everyone’s head, then it would be extremely difficult to gin up much outrage over an eavesdropping program, warrants or not . . . one can protect against the threat of terrorism with courage, calm and resolve – the attributes which have always defined our nation as it has confronted other threats. Hysteria and fear-mongering are the opposite of strength. The strong remain rational and unafraid.

Emphasis mine. It has been my contention for three years that just about everyone in the government in Washington was suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- and its time to get over it, folks.