The "war on terror" has become a war on the American people by segments of the American government.  The Transportation Security Agency is an agency now completely out of control.  They are the direct threat to the American way of life that Bin Lauden wishes he could be.

Of course the "war on terror" has also become the continuous cry for an unlimited and unending flow of money into defense spending.  Mr. Obama is falling into the trap of fighting the "war of terror."  All the mistakes the Bush administration made in Iraq the Obama administration is looking to repeat in Afghanistan.

The "War on Terror" is an Orwellian fraud that should be totally scrapped as an idea, a point of rhetoric, a focal point for policy and government resources.  We already have well developed national security structures; we don't need a bogeyman justification for invading our privacy and curtailing our hard-won freedoms.

Wow to comment here ,well okay here goes. The commission on 9/11 ,was a valuable piece of work.I should read the whole thing. I expressed an interesting opinion to an acquaintance a few weeks before that day,he seemed to show more animation upon hearing it, and what he said afterwards affected my emotions. We had only recently met, and the situation was weird,but things are sometimes. Anyway,I somehow got to talking about power,there in the supermarket. I say something about those skyscrapers not representing any thing of power to me .Who knows what for sure I was getting at.A bit about my own living situation,a relationship not really working out, that place to call home, again, slipping away.A bit of the cynic about modernity,a bit of an art of speaking to what I sense the hearer is responsive to.When I thought back to how he perked up,it dawned that perhaps he knew,not of the plot, but  remebered that the unsuccessful ringleader of the first attack on those buildings swore about it.Threathened.