Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow hard bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Under the influence of fear which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things they magnified their enemies' resources and minimized their own.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?