Now We Have Gone Too Far

++This is the post that ties the number of posts for the first full year of In Another Country. Are we really turning to the past.

++Today my town announced it was holding a mock terrorist attack on a local movie theater. Read Robert Kuttner's article in Huffington Post that the 2016 presidential election will be on National Security.

++A mock attack? Really. Why not a drudge siren to announce the degree of terrorist threat.

++You will recall the first theme against the Obama administration was the impending terrorist attack that Dick Cheney keep appearing on national television to warn against. When the underwear bomber was a flop and the Times Square bomber was a dud, the major theme was to create economic anxiety. This actually worked for a while and allow the GOP to win in 2014. Since the economy without any help from the GOP has started humming along, now it's back to terrorist.

++The Beltway is abuzz with war talk but no one seems to know what war anyone is talking about. But it is Obama's fault.

++Mock attacks on theaters? Terrorist threats are real but by now a trillion dollars in our terrorism/intelligence complex should give some assurance to people. 

++Give me a call when we get bombed.