Fear-mongering by officials and by the media
“Fear sells,” points out
journalist James Risen in his recent book, Pay
Any Price.
In his book, Risen
skewers what he calls the “homeland
security-industrial complex.” American leaders, he notes,
“have learned that keeping the terrorist
threat alive provides enormous political benefits” by allowing “incumbents to
look tough,” lending them “the national attention and political glamor that
comes with dealing with national security issues.”
Thus “a decade of
fear-mongering has brought power and wealth to those who have been the most
skillful at hyping the terrorism threat” and “is central to the financial
well-being of countless federal bureaucrats, contractors, subcontractors,
consultant, analysis and pundits.”
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