America's Biggest Threat

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Is apparently the Big Mac.

The National Center for Health Statistics, which tracks 113 causes of death in the United States, reported that in the same year that nearly 3,000 people died in the Sept. 11 attacks, 43,788 died in motor vehicle accidents, 30,622 by suicide, 20,306 were murdered (including 11,348 by firearms), 14,078 died by accidental poisoning and 3,021 died as a result of complications from medical care. Another 700,000 Americans died of heart disease, the No. 1 killer, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 553,768 died of cancer and 32,238 died of blood poisoning.

Because of where we live, and the events of 9-11 obviously we're deeply affected by the decisions regarding national security and the course we take to address terrorism.

Americans in major cities have serious reason to be concerned, but does most of America? Maybe the frenzy over 9-11 is propelled equally by fear as it is by anger and revenge. However, I'm not sure that either of these motivations are going to be the fountain for a useful solution to the situation.

We keep being told we're under attack, and in the name of our safety, we have to sacrifice and accept certain realities of a "new" world. Is the world all that new and different now?

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