According to Maggie Gallagher anyway. "To someone less determined to snatch defeat out of victory, the bad news is the good news: Just 73 Americans died in the April invasion. Not a single American, meanwhile, has been killed by terrorists on U.S. soil since 9/11. Do you remember how we told each other things would never go back to normal here?
But they have, even here in New York. The threat of terrorism remains but it is a background buzz, no longer a daily reality, a paralyzing fear."
So that's comforting. Of course, it's more comforting if you believe that President Bush has actually made our lives safer. And if you forget (hard to do since Gallagher quotes the statistic herself) that we had 81 troops die in November. I think it's probably a good idea to keep an eye on what's happened since April when we are evaluating the success of this invasion.
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