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I'll bet he wishes he'd never said it
Reuters quotes Michigan Representative Bart Stupak thus:
"If we cannot protect the nation's supply of peanut butter, one must ask how prepared we are for a terrorist attack on our nation's food supply,"
Stupak is right, of course, and in the context of a story about the salmonella outbreak in some brands of peanut butter, the comment makes perfect sense. But take it out of context, and hoo-boy!
That's the problem with the way we Americans prefer to get our news today. Two dozen words, or a fleeting facial expression that lasts 1/125 second, and you look like a complete dope. Which is tragic, because that makes it so difficult to separate the true dopes in politics from good people caught at an inopportune moment.
A terror attack on our food supply would be ridiculously easy to pull off. Since September 11th, I have thought of easily a dozen ideas that could be implemented, with very few people and a miniscule budget. I have resisted blogging about them, for fear of giving someone an idea, and heretofore have resisted even writing down the fact I'd thought of the subject, for obvious (albeit paranoid) reasons.
While our governments have squandered endless amounts of money on the air travel industry, implementing feel-good security measures that are for the most part ridiculous and ineffective, God only knows where else the Bad Guys have turned their attention. This is what makes terrorism so effective, and it is also why this war will never be won without rooting out and killing every last SOB that participates in it, however indirectly.