I made enquiries to find out if there was a travel advisory out against Washington DC, or against othercities in the United States. I was told that Washington's gates remained wide open to tourism (and other isms,like neoconservatism). Indeed, it transpired that there is no travel advisory out against any US city at all,though reliable sources such as CNN and BBC routinely report that people there live under constant threat ofunexpected attack by viruses, microbes, Kalashnikovs, snipers, serial killers, shoe bombs, water supplypoisoning, anthrax, truck bombs, nuclear strikes, radiation leaks, surveillance, loss of civil liberties, andso on.