Terrorism is really a minor menace. The real terrorists are the Code Orangina with fluoride crowd. The US government has massively inspired terror in fear and caused billions of dollars in financial losses and untold prices paid by people in fear.
The truth is that there is very little terrorism and it isn't much impact on ordinary people. What there is, can often be stopped by plain ordinary police work. Some of it will happen regardless -- much of it from people like the occasional Unibomber or Tim McVeigh.
Washington people are so paranoid, in a medical way, and they are causing the state of permanent war that assures our civil rights are beings suspended for a very long time. And if you keep fearing something long enough, you make more likely to come to pass somehow.
I am very optimistic that this will change, however, because of unpredictable factors, so I am not in a tizzy about it. But nevertheless today that is how I see it.