Are You Worried?
We spent a lot of time this morning talking about what's going on in London and Glasgow. Things are happening fast: Two more arrests were made today, and it now sounds like police were closing in on the attackers just before they slammed a car into the airport terminal. Here at home, Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security, was all over the morning news shows saying the country needs to be more vigilant, but stressing that there is no credible threat to the United States. The federal terror level has not changed, still, ABC News reported today about a secret document, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, that apparently, "warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror 'spectacular' this summer." And, with the Fourth of July coming on Wednesday, it seems like people are either in a frantic "should I be nervous," or a calming "there's nothing to worry about" mode. With all the talk of attacks, arrests, and summer warnings, do you fall into one group or the other... Should we be nervous, or is this manufactured anxiety?
11:02 AM ET | 07- 2-2007 | permalink
