Suppose we won the war but lost our freedom:

‘…Every commentator on this conflict – and I write as one who supports it – seems to have got it wrong. What’s frightening isn’t the prospect of the Americans becoming bogged down, as in Vietnam; what’s frightening is the almost contemptuous ease with which they are winning it.

And what can be done on the battlefield can be done with equal efficiency on the home front. I do not mean that David Blunkett intends to have Predators cruising up and down above British motorways (although I wouldn’t put it past him), but rather that the new technologies have the potential to destroy human privacy, and the Government now means to exploit the situation under cover of fighting terrorism….’Telegraph UK