Feel safer yet...?


Exactly how is this going to make us safer?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 — Pentagon officials said today that Americans in some areas of the country could expect to see more warplanes in the skies during the holiday season now that a higher antiterrorism alert level is in effect.

"They may see additional air patrols over select cities and facilities, an increase in the air-defense posture here in Washington, D.C., and combat aircraft could be put on a higher alert at different air bases throughout the country," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard B. Myers, said at a Pentagon briefing.

Yeah, right, al Qaeda's going to attack us with a squadron of fighter bombers.

Considering the safety record of the U.S. military, more warplanes in the skies above American cities probably increases the risk of casualties.

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