Originally Posted by Teacher49
We differ only in degree. I did not mean to suggest that such an attack or smaller ones will NEVER occur. I am saying that the danger is way overblown. If terrorists and terrorism was as ubiquitous as the amount of our resources and thinking and rhetoric devoted to them would suggest, then we would be having these attack NOW and many of them.
I agree with this. I think we need to put most of our terrorist money into preventing the really catostrophic attacks. Nuclear (regular or "dirty"), for example. Critical infrastructure.