The revenge of the terror alerts

Is anyone else skeptical that 1 month prior to 9/11, and more importantly 3 months prior to an election, Michael Chertoff and Alberto Gonzalez are all over the television telling us to be afraid? I never realized the terror alert system is selective. It's red for flights from the UK, orange for flights in the US and yellow for everything else. I feel so much safer now. As long as terrorists strike with laptops filled with liquid explosives or cups of Dunkin Donuts coffee, we will all live happily ever after. Not sure what we will do once terrorists start swallowing explosives, ban passengers I guess. Meanwhile we still aren't doing enough to scan checked baggage.

Instead of fighting terrorists from nations like Saudi Arabia we are now seeing home-grown groups begin to form. They have little if any affiliation to Al Qaeda but they appear just as determined to kill as many people as possible. Perhaps the US and UK governments should analyze their foreign policies and determine whether they can take a more preventative not reactive approach to fighting terrorism. The British should know that repressive foreign policy can be problematic (the IRA).

Meanwhile where is that place we are fighting and defending freedom? Starts with an I, I think.