In one of those interesting twists of logic, it appears that the importance of freedom as it relates to the feeling of security actually fluctuates depending on where you live, longitudinally speaking.
For example, if you live in the United States, it is now apparently considered acceptable to surrender any of your freedoms the government deems necessary in its efforts to provide you with “security”.
However, if you live on the other side of the world (in Iraq, for example), it’s actually OK and even “successful” that in the last several years your home country has lost a great deal of “security”. As a matter of fact, it has turned into a hotbed of terrorist insurgency and tens of thousands of your civilian neighbors have been killed. This loss of “security” is an acceptable price to pay, because you have been lucky enough to have someone bring you “freedom”.