http://belowthebeltway.com/2006/06/24/ctu-meets-dhs/ I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in. Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://belowthebeltway.com/2006/06/24/ctu-meets-dhs/comment-page-1/#comment-645 Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » 24 And The War On Terror Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:30:25 +0000 http://belowthebeltway.com/2006/06/24/ctu-meets-dhs/#comment-645 [...] Reporting on last week’s Heritage Foundation 24 Symposium, Timothy Carney writes at NRO about what the popularity of Fox’s 24 means for the War on Terror: Make-believe antiterrorism and real antiterrorism have some things in common and many things different, but they matter to one another in this respect: What Americans watch on TV about counterterrorism operations, whether fact or fiction, affects what they expect in real life. Further, what we expect of their homeland defenses affects politicians, which in turn influence the agencies. This is where 24 matters to our real war on terror, it seems: Jack Bauer sets our expectations, which can make things tough for our leaders. [...] [...] Reporting on last week’s Heritage Foundation 24 Symposium, Timothy Carney writes at NRO about what the popularity of Fox’s 24 means for the War on Terror: Make-believe antiterrorism and real antiterrorism have some things in common and many things different, but they matter to one another in this respect: What Americans watch on TV about counterterrorism operations, whether fact or fiction, affects what they expect in real life. Further, what we expect of their homeland defenses affects politicians, which in turn influence the agencies. This is where 24 matters to our real war on terror, it seems: Jack Bauer sets our expectations, which can make things tough for our leaders. [...]

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