Be Very Afraid, Redux

Hot off the AP wire:

2 men were just apprehended by Mexican border agents near the border of California. No big deal, you say? This must happen all the time, you say? Well, what if I were to tell you that the 2 men in question just happen to be.... Iraqi??? Are you afraid now? No? That proves nothing, you say? Let's hear their side of it, you say? Just because they are from Iraq doesn't necessarily make them a threat, I mean after all most of the "terrorists" we are currently fighting in Iraq are called "foreign fighters" because they aren't even from Iraq, you say????

Well, my overly complacent friend, just take a gander at the transcript of a conversation that just occurred on that Beacon of Truth, FOX News, right after it hit the AP wire:

"Host Martha MacCallum: We have General Scales back with us for some analysis. General Scales, what does it say to you that these 2 Iraqis have been taken in?

Maj. General Bob Scales, US Army (Ret.): Well, Martha, I think what it says is, it reinforces what the President said last night. That this is a global war on terrorism. There are no borders, there are no front lines, no peaceful or secure areas... I mean, who knows what the motives of these 2 were? I don't think their motives were terribly peaceful or benign. And what it tells us is that certainly the insurgents, the bad guys, consider us to be their global enemy, and they're going to do everything they can to strike us anywhere they can, even if it's in our own country. People should be very aware that this is not just a diversion from the Middle East. This is the Middle East taking the war to our own country."

Well if that insightful analysis based on absolutely no information other than "2 Iraqi nationals apprehended by Mexican authorities near California border" doesn't instill the required terror in you, then you might as well go back to giving Osama a foot rub because the terrorists have obviously already won.