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To: SARMAN who wrote (219492)	2/19/2007 10:32:04 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

I hope he's right, but I doubt he is. In a free country (and even in dictatorships) terrorists will exploit gaps in security, and there will always be gaps in security. Terrorism is like disease- it mutates, and it will always be with us, but you keep trying to make advances in fighting it, and you go on. Actually disease kills millions more than terrorism, so the analogy makes terrorism seem a bit more important than it rationally should be, but irrationally people are more afraid of it than disease (which makes absolutely no sense to me, but there you are)- and that's part of the power of it as a tool. As long as it has that power, domestic and foreign agencies who want to have a big impact with a small force will use it.