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If enough people think like you do, the terrorists won.

They are not out to blow you up. They want to destroy your way of life - your freedoms and the notion that government serves the people. The want the opposite.

And they are winning. Blowing people up is not the objective: it's the tool.




If enough people think like you do, the terrorists won

Al Qaeda spent $20,000 or so on September 11. The US spent $1 trillion and counting. They "won" the minute we opened our checkbook; turning the country into a police state was just dancing in the end zone.


Excellent point. By definition, "terrorism" is a method that the US cannot really defend against without creating a police state.




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