Who's winning?

Speak it brother. It seems really easy to me. Terrorists want us to be afraid. So the only way to "win" so to speak is to not let them scare you. If you assume that terrorists are going to do terrible, horrible things and fail to be surprised by it then at least you can make rational logical decisions on how to deal with it as opposed to some people who think they can talk big like a cowboy and solve all our issues with a swagger and a big gun.

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics.

The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act.

And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

Wired News: Refuse to be Terrorized

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