Pumping Up the fear, Essential to the Repubs

Digby has put words to a sense I have had for a while about why the fear-mongoring by the Bushies et al is more manipulation of the masses than a huge, legitimate national security concern. How could it be more obvious that we have little to fear, really, from a bunch of sandal-footed radicals boxed in camped out in the deserts of the middle east. To compare the threat they pose to us with WWII or the Cold War, as has been done continuously by the ruling radical right, is ludicrous. But they try.

This captures it perfectly: "Bush is making strategy based on a delusional goal of his opponent, which is idiotic; or he's saying he believes his opponent has the capability of achieving this delusional goal, which is idiotic."