If you look at the number of Americans killed by terrorists in the past 10 years, compared to the number killed in all other preventable ways, you will see that a lot of Americans die but a tiny fraction result from terrorism. If you look at the amount of time and money spent combating all the other ways Americans die vs the War on Terror, you have to wonder if terrorists do something besides kill people. Isn't death pretty much the same regardless of the cause? Whether killed by a drunk driver, or shot during a bank robbery, or murdered by a jealous ex-lover, or blown up by a suicide bomber, don't you end up with the same result? So why does our government obsess over one while virtually ignoring all the others? Especially since the only way terrorism works is when the victims consistently allow themselves to be terrified by the very thought?
2007-01-05
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