User blog comment:Arbington/DLC Theories/@comment-2250460-20100912015019/@comment-217683-20100912071529

You must be joking. Right? Please, tell me you're joking. Of course the Reapers aren't a nearby country, though they do pose a tangible threat. They are a known alien race that has deliberately attacked the Citadel. Your analogy was sooooo far off base it's almost... I don't know what it is.

In order for your analogy to work, the aliens would need to attack Washington D.C., coming perilously close to destroying the city and killing all its inhabitants, plus the entire Federal government. Then, they'd be defeated at the last minute, and the government would pledge to do everything it could to stop them. But then they do nothing, and when, two years later, they are confronted with this, they say "Those weren't aliens, they were just terrorists".

What you said was true right up until a Reaper actually attacked the Citadel. And I'm not talking about the mindset before the attack, I'm talking about the mindset two years after the attack.