Terrorism and Politics

Real Clear Politics has a great article, which talks about a poll, which suggests that the failed terrorist plot will not have a negative effect on Democrats in the upcoming elections. In Today's editorial, the New York Times argues that the War on Terror shouldn't be politicized:

There is nothing Americans want more than to win the war on terror, to come to a place where people no longer feel it is a fine thing to forfeit their own lives and the lives of innocents in order to make the world notice their anger and frustration. It is a point on which the country is absolutely undivided. It is one matter about which subway commuters, airline passengers and mall shoppers feel no irony or cynicism whatsoever.

It comes like a punch to the gut, at times like these, when our leaders blatantly use the nation’s trauma for political gain. We never get used to this. It never feels like business as usual.

I agree with that point. There are different ways to fight and to win the war on terror and there should be a civil debate about how to fight the war on terror and about the means to use to win it among Americans, whether they are liberals or conservatives, Democrats or Republicans.