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interesting point.
I lived in London during the eight f the IRA bombings of the early 1990s, and I whilst I heard abut several events, and saw the aftermath of a few, I never felt in danger, and I never had my life affected by more than delays.
Even in the WTC attacks the chances of actually being injured were minuscule. Of the millions of people in NYC tat day only ~3,000 were killed.
It's unutterably crap, but there are 45,000 US residents killed every year in road accidents - and there's not billions spent in the "war against crap driving".
Terrorists DO want to destroy the Western way of life, but it's highly unlikely that any form of direct action by a minority will ever do more than cause backlashes and knee-jerks.
Organisations that have changed parts of the world tend to have MASS SUPPORT. Gandhi did it by marching with millions.
Mao did it by subverting the army's members.
Terrorists have never done it simply by bombing.
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