Originally Posted by TSORon

Interesting analogy, but its apples and oranges. The goal of terrorism is to effect change on a large scale. Its not one police officer they want to kill, its all of them, in the most spectacular way they can. Thereby putting fear into both the police and those they protect. As far as 9/11 is concerned, I’d call the fourth only a partial failure. It didn’t hit its intended target I agree, but many people still lost their lives and helped to damage the global economy, our national economy, and strike fear into our nation as a whole. A net “win” for the terrorists.