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To: FaultLine who wrote (134)	9/17/2001 1:14:12 AM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 281500

contrary to official statements about the grave danger terrorism poses, most American national security experts and bureaucracies have traditionally paid it scant attention. Terrorism kills fewer Americans than does lightning, they say in private -- which happens to be true -- and overreaction to it is therefore a sucker's move." perhaps, but that was then and this is now. I wonder whether the author of those words thinks they still hold now, when some of what seemed alarmist predictions have come true in spades. Certainly this attack was a hell of a lot worse than lightning (or peanut allergies, another statistic skeptics used to cite). So while the overreaction problem is still a real one, I think even the author of that piece would probably concede that there's lots of room below that threshold in this case.... tb@wheredotheygettheseguys?.com