YES, ARMITAGE ALSO GETS IT

The wingnuts have also overlooked this:

ARMITAGE:Look, these terrorists want to hurt us. They are a real and growing threat. But absent the availability of WMD to them, they don't pose an existential threat to us. This is not like fascism during the Second World War, or communism.

The threat they pose to us is whether we, in response to their activities, will actually do harm to ourselves by changing our way of life, by suspending writs of habeas corpus, and by engaging in such activities as torture.