http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-04/terror-alerts-are-useless
With the USA the most murderous society in the western world (4.3 per 100,000) you are three times more likely to die in a violent incident in the USA, than anywhere in Western Europe, with or without terrorists.
It strikes me that is is simply a massive ass-covering exercise, as in, “We would never be forgiven if there ever was an incident and it was proved we had prior information it was possible”.
“Terrorism hurts us most not when it kills people, but when it uses our own clouded judgment as a force multiplier that inspires us to weaken ourselves in a thousand ways big and small.”
I spent many of my evenings during the first Gulf War, sitting out in our garden, in Bahrain, listening to the bombers roaring overhead every night, on their way to raining death and destruction on Iraq, trying to finish off our liquor stocks with friends, before Saddam Hussein came storming over the causeway, and took it off us!
Of course I was frightened when occasionally a misguided missile, destined for Saudi Arabia, landed a mile or so away. It didn’t help to have an idiot director in Head Office to whom I reported, telling me that they weren’t aiming for me, and it would be an accident if one did take me out! But to scare American travellers under their kitchen tables with “Alerts” that terrorists may be planning an attack on Europe, is idiocy of a far higher order, IMHO.
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