Hawk Heaven

"This business will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."
--Rear Admiral Joshua Painter (The Hunt for Red October)

In light of the Paris terrorist attacks, watch campaign rhetoric turn hawkish. Should a bomb subsequently go off on US soil, watch candidates trip over themselves to push the DEFCON button.

My first thought was that organized terrorist groups would not want such escalation to happen in a US election year. My second thought is that this might be precisely what these groups want.