We are scared b/c the Bush administration loves to constantly remind us of the threat of terrorism without backing up their warnings with solid facts.
Face it, terrorism has killed only a handful of people in the past year. It has killed less than 3,000 people in the past decade....and this was in the worst decade for terrorism in American history. Americans should be much more frightened of car accidents, handguns, AIDS and many other causes of death, each of which kill hundreds of times as many people as terrorism.
It's just that terrorism is a political plus for Republicans, and people are poor evaluators of risk, so terrorism is all we hear about.
So, when a terrorist organization declares war, attacks multiple US interests and then actually strikes US soil killing 3000, what is the appropriate reaction?
Hint- pretending that terrorism is just a fact of life, just as common as car accidents is not the right answer.
