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Originally posted by Strange Famous
the world is much more dangerous today than it was 3 years ago, and the war on terror is impossible to win, the more you strike, the more you are struck back,,, it is that simple.
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No its not. Everyone makes such a big deal about a couple hundred deaths because its displayed in such a flashy way on CNN (or BBC, ...). Sure its tragic, but your probability of dying in a terrorist attack is still negligible. 40,000 people die in car accidents every year in the US alone.
In any case, it is not possible to defend against terrorism. Nearly anyone can get some explosives and leave them on a couple of trains. Seriously, what is Bush (or anyone) supposed to do?
On another note, it is possible that certain plans were discovered and stopped before anything happened. I doubt that such things would be released to the public.
How would we measure any changes if they did exist? Terrorism against the US is so uncommon that there is no sense of a statistical sample to compare against. AFAIK, Israel is the only country unlucky enough to make any claims on whether attacks are increasing or decreasing.