Voices of the Terrorized 0
The purpose of a terrorism as a tactic is to create fear leading to the breakdown of order and to overreaction in response, thus weakening the polity.
In the cases of Michael Smerconish in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Richard Adams in the Guardian, the tactic has certainly succeeded.
Given that one’s chance of dying in a car wreck are far greater than those of dying in a terrorist attack, one wonders whether they view driving with the same calculation of danger that they apply to travelling by air.
One doubts it.
Afterthought:
Mr. Adams’s analyses are subject to question. According to his column, he considers Charles Krauthammer, whom I find a vitriolic polemicist (and that’s on his good days), to be “sane and rational.”
