“This anti-terrorism business is tough, fiendishly so when the enemy is clever, resourceful and patient. I wish our president the greatest success in combating it. We need it.
But we need something else. When our president tells us that our security is at risk, that attack is imminent—when the shepherd boy tells us that the wolf is already among us—we need to be able to believe him, without reservation.
As I recall Aesop’s fable, the shepherd boy survived his mendacity, losing only his job.”
“It was the sheep that took the hit.”
—Wm Raspberry, Washington Post
