How The US Response Turns 'Failed' Terrrorist Attacks Into Successes

I think I may have mentioned this in passing from time to time, I'm just glad someone decided to write about it.

Terrorism is a serious issue. No one's trying to downplay the fact that some very angry individuals are trying to kill an awful lot of Americans (and others as well). However, what's amazing is how incredibly bad the US appears to be at this particular game of chess. Robert Wright recently had a bit of an eye-opening discussion of how the US appears to have played into Al Qaeda's plan at almost every turn. It's another case of the US simply not understanding how to respond to a distributed threat, rather than a centralized one. The whole business is based on getting the US to overreact and overspend and get it caught in a quagmire that causes additional problems. And, increasingly, it looks like that's exactly what's happened. 

Be sure to check out the full story on TechDirt.

On a side note I think we're going to start seeing a TON of articles like this in the next few months and the US (and TSA) will promptly ignore all of the claims because they are trying to protect Americans, I can appreciate that. 

However WHO are they protecting us from?, terrorists? Not likely, they are protecting is from the thousands of "bored" reporters that find it necessary to blow everything out of proportion because it will get better google rankings and in turn line their pocketbooks for their hard work.

Yep, we have turned our quest for information into the thing that keeps us up at night.  For a sanity check I would suggest that EVERYONE watch "Men in Black" and pay special attention to how Agent J (Will Smith) reacts when he finds out there is a battle cruiser in orbit around earth.

Ya, that is "us".  Its time to become more responsible and stop freaking everyone out.

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