"seemingly arbitrary state violence is an old, well-established tactic of states"
You weren't referring to the subsequent "war on terror," relating the state response to that to the state reponse to this? It was just thrown in unrelated?
> But because it was seemingly random, people thought it could happen anywhere.
While people everywhere did fear, what was "seemingly random" about targeting: the Pentagon, the US Capitol, and the most prominent buildings in the NY skyline, which had already been targeted before in a bombing plot by the same groups?
I suppose that should be mostly said to the mirror, at least before anyone else.
> balance out the response we had
That isn't an issue in my comments.