Excellent and sobering article on terrorism. Many of the ideas in this piece ring with acute clarity, and are indeed thought provoking and constructive. This article should ideally be seen by a massive American audience, and debated by them. I could play devil’s advocate here and say that the American population as a whole is already blindly following Schneier’s ideas. Do you think less people would be flying if all of the bizarre security checks at airports were dropped? No, probably more people would fly. What’s to account for the ever increasing numbers of wealthy, prominent people moving to the bustling “sitting duck” city of New York? Nevertheless, per Schneier’s article; the fact remains that the goal of terrorism is not how many people you kill, but how many people are watching. And the bottom-line conclusion I’ve gained is yet even more proof that those who exploit fear in “the age of terrorism” we supposedly live in will do so for personal gain – and not for the interest of a nation’s real security, or the well being of it’s people. Read Bruce Schneier’s What Terrorists Want article here.

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