Tiger is coming!

When I was growing up in India, one of the ploys used to quiet a crying baby was to say ‘Look, tiger is coming!’. Today’s security alert about terrorist attack to New York city subways, reminds me of that. Could it be a ploy to distract the press and the media from 'crying' about the meaningless war, rising gas prices, corruption in the Republican leadership etc. ? (The identification of ‘Iraqi al-Qaida connection’ behind this threat is a nice touch. Who says that we are not fighting terrorists in Iraq?). The Bush administration had pulled a similar stunt last year in New York city, immediately after the Democratic convention. There was a security alert for a few days – long enough to prevent the traditional bounce in polls after a convention. Wonder what will happen next week if Karl Rove gets indicted in the Plame investigation. Hope that it will not be something scarier than a tiger coming!

10/13/05 Update:

People are starting to notice these strange coincidences of terror alerts.