10:04 AM
Politico More idiocy

I've heard Bush make similar statements but had not thought Rice would be idiot enough to say it. "We've increased worldwide awareness of terrorism."

Which is just plain stupid. The rest of the world not only was very aware of terrorism, most countries have been dealing with terrorist attacks on their own soil for years while we sat smugly in our ivory tower, considering ourselves invulnerable, casting pitying looks at those poor peasants and their little problems.

England dealing with the IRA, Europe dealing with Middle East terrorists blowing up their airports, Spain dealing with Basque terrorists, Germany dealing with Middle East terrorists killing Olympic athletes 30 years ago and their own local extremist groups, Russia dealing with various terrorist groups in neighboring countries, Afghanistan, Chechnya, etc., India and Pakistan dealing with their own internal terrorists, Africa dealing with Middle East terrorists blowing up US embassies along with their own civil wars and genocides. And of course, Israel dealing with terrorist attacks every single day for over forty years now and still taking the brunt of the anger at the US.

The world has been very aware of terrorism for a long time.