here's the thing.
many neocons believe the threat is worse than it is because 1) They beleive everything bush says, including fear tactics which benefit him come election time, 2) they bought all the WMD talk despite experts and intel saying otherwise.
many libs underestimate the threat because, simply, they believe a lot of the terror is partially created by our own govt. Why? Shit, without 9/11, there would be no patriot act, no invasions on afghan, iraq, and no coming iran. 9/11 was bush's blank check, we all can agree to that. You toss in all the evidence - like WTC7 being a controlled demo - and many libs do believe that the terror threat is actually generated by us to justify us imperialist aggression.
I believe there ARE crazy groups out ther ewho would love to hurt us. But it's odd the only time it happens here, it happens to have white fingerprints all over it. I mean, FAA standing down and destorying records - what the fvck was that? It was involvement, plain and simple.