Alan: I am baffled by the failure of Islamo-terrorists to perpetrate another major attack on American soil.
It would be a cakewalk.
95% of Amtrak stations are unmanned - and every American hospital is wide open 24/7.
The fact that terrorists have not harvested this low-hanging fruit raises serious doubts about the intelligence (and/or strategic capability) of those anarchists who seek to inflict decisive harm on the American people by degrading the viability of its democratic experiment.
Just one more terror attack and the nation's abiding xenophobia -- coupled with its fondness for militarized authoritarianism -- would catapult the United States into a lasting (perhaps permanent) state of fascist clamp-down.
From the terrorist vantage, the consequent closure of open society and the destruction of meaningful democratic process would mark the end of Lincoln's "last, best hope on earth."
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