Are Americans Bored with Counter-Terrorism?

Written by David Frum on Thursday November 18, 2010

Reading the intensifying round of complaints about the TSA's practices, I'm left wondering: Is America now bored with antiterrorism efforts?

Admittedly, this is probably an apocryphal story - and double admittedly I may be remembering it wrong. But the yarn goes that one day in 1954, Henry Luce was lunching with the editors of Time magazine and announced: "I'm bored with anticommunism." Reading the intensifying round of complaints about the TSA's practices, I'm left wondering: Is America now bored with antiterrorism?

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