Dick Cheney has been all over the place telling people they need to be afraid, and from the broken clock department David Brooks calls him out on it:
That mature attitude seems to have largely vanished. Now we seem to expect perfection from government and then throw temper tantrums when it is not achieved. We seem to be in the position of young adolescents — who believe mommy and daddy can take care of everything, and then grow angry and cynical when it becomes clear they can’t.
It will always be possible for terrorists to kill some people, but the only way they can win is if the world overreacts and you know, invades countries for no reason; or makes travel too expensive in an effort to be one-hundred-percent safe. Hopefully over the next few years the adults will prevail when it comes to the annoying terrorists.