NO ONE EVER GOES THERE ANYMORE, IT'S TOO CROWDED

Scaring America half to death (William Pfaff, May 8, 2003, IHT)

Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations met in Paris on Monday to affirm that terrorism remains a "pervasive and global threat." Just three days earlier, the State Department had announced that terrorism is at its lowest level in 33 years.

One wonders if anything would have changed had that news reached the G-8 foreign ministers. The war against terrorism, like the war against Iraq, functions in all but total indifference to facts.

Can't believe we missed this classic, which ranks right up there with the legendary NY Times story that pondered the paradox of how prison populations could be going up at the same time crime rates were falling. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 1, 2003 12:23 AM