You keep missing the big picture, John.

We embark on a crusade that makes a mockery of everything this country
traditionally has stood for, imprison people without due process,
follow our own citiznes around peering and prying into library reading
lists, etc.....and you continue to declare every day with fewer than
the prevailing average number of innocent people killed as "good news".

Good news will be when we get serious about dismembering the
organization that already attacked us, not when we continue down some
unrelated list of people and nations who just might maybe, somehow,
some way, someday, attack us in the future. (Taken to its logical
extreme, that includes everybody).

Give me liberty or give me death? For too many folks that has become
"Forget about liberty. Give me an absolute assurance my family won't be
attacked by a terrorist and I'll volunteer to set fire to the Bill of
Rights"

"People who are willing to trade liberty for security deserve neither."