You miss my point as usual, Bruce. I don't mind if someone disagrees with me, but I do object when they do so on the grounds of histrionic half-baked or downright neurotic views of reality based on false, distorted, uninspected or downright fraudulent data. One of the common ways to distort data is to take something that is relatively unimportant in the stream of things and blow it up as though it were terribly important. This is motivated by some sort of hungry a priori need for a casus belli, not by an actual effort to identify situations.

The promulgation of fraudulent data is a specialty of certain loudmouthed fearmongers like Coulter, Reilly, Beck and their ilk. For reasons I do not quite understand this dedication to motivating others through fear seems to crop up on the right side of the political spectrum much more frequently than it does on the left. Maybe liberals are just less interested in lives of hatred and fear. Whatever the reasons, the ill-founded logic of such assertions annoys me, as you know, far more than anyone disagreeeing with me personally. You always ignore that aspect, although we have discussed it before.