It’s 4:00 in the morning. Your kids are fast asleep. At the same time there’s a phone in the White House ringing. It’s terrorism. Who do you want answering that phone? Think of your sleeping children, think of the ringing phone and then think of global terrorism.

What if terrorism wants to talk to your kids, and whoever answers that phone wakes your kids at 4:00 am and lets terrorism talk to them? Do you want your kids talking to terrorism? Or, do you want your children to continue sleeping so that they may wake up rejuvenated in the morning, eat a balanced breakfast and then go into the world carrying the prejudices you’ve worked so hard to instill in them?

Maybe it’s a little too abstract to imagine terrorism using telephones. I submit that it’s more tangible, and in fact quite legitimate, to imagine a pack of wild, blood-thirsty wolves on the other end of that White House phone. And they want to convince whoever answers it to hand over your slumbering children for a quick meal. Who do you want answering the take-out order for your children’s supple, slightly mesquite brisket?

Well, it doesn’t matter because the call has gone to voicemail.