ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looked at from one particular perspective, what you have written and > what I wrote are not mutually incompatible. Let me tell the story > this way: > > "The US had a brief period when terrorist attacks seemed to become > frequent. But the US security agencies clamped down so effectively > on the weak spots that were open to misuse by terrorists that the US > made itself relatively immune to terrorist attacks.
They clamped down? Really? Not that anyone I know has noticed. If you wanted to kill a lot of people here, it would be easy, even trivial. There is no way to prevent it -- I can't see any means of "clamping down" that would actually *work*. What protects us, for the most part, is the overwhelming stupidity of most terrorists, and their relative rarity in the global population. There is, of course, a very good reason that terrorists are rare and generally stupid -- I could point to Charles Darwin and Robert Axelrod for the answer to *that* conundrum. Perry
