Bush Gets "F" in War on Terror

I’m going to have to give the Department of Homeland Security and the Bush regime a big fat ‘F’ in the War on Terror. Let’s look at the DHS’s own terror level alert system as an indicator of how DHS thinks it is doing. A history of alert status is reported here:
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/editorial/editorial_0844.xml

The system was introduced on March 12, 2002 at Yellow Alert. Since then, the alert status has stayed at Yellow or has increased to Orange or even Red (for flights originating in the UK). The alert level has never been reduced below Yellow. Not once. The DHS admits that there has been no progress whatsoever on the terror front despite the billions of dollars we have thrown at the problem. In my book, this is abject failure. The GOP has demonstrated that it is incapable of making America safer. If America were actually safer, wouldn’t the terror alert level have gone down?

When GW Bush or his supporters argue that only the GOP can make America safer, they should be asked to explain why the terror alert status has not gone down on their watch. Progress, had there been any, would be marked by a progression from terror, to fear, to mild anxiety, to annoyance. Instead, we seem to move from terror to more terror. In terms of threat level, as assessed by the DHS, and in terms of our emotional state, following the suggestions of Bush and his minions to remember how grave the threat is, the War on Terror has not gone well at all.