I think we are giving this terrorism thing way too much importance. I agree it's pretty pathetic for anyone to blow themselves up with other people but if you look at it as a numbers game we'd realize that terrorists don't manage to kill that many people compared to other causes of death.
We could have saved many of the 200,000 tsunami victims if we had spent more on tsunami detection systems. Same thing with earthquakes. Drugs, car accidents, cigarettes, cancer, ect...all those kill more people in a year than terrorists do, even when you take them individually.
I'm not saying we shouldn't try to stop terrorism, or try to disrupt their activities with proper intelligence, of course we should, but a least put it in proper perspective.
Governments make it sound like there is a magical solution to it, as if one morning we'll wake up and terrorism won't exist no more. It won't happen. So the phrase.."go on with your life" really is the thing to do. Why fear terrorism? The chances of someone dying from a terrorist attack is very minimal. I'd fear terrorism just as much as hopping in my car for a sunday drive.
Because of it, we are all pointing fingers at each other, creating religious wars and animosity, increasing the chances of terror acts happening even more. You did it to us so here's my retaliation, spending billions in the process.
Were giving these jerks way too much press.