Reply #49: Nothing [View All]

[kiahzero]

It pretty much does come down to "You can just die," sadly, which means that it's not something that's going to completely go away. It isn't really like the IRA or the situation in Palestine where there's an end-game.

With that said, there are things we can do to reduce it. For one thing, not let the terrorists win by panicking. The reaction yesterday was completely inappropriate and gave the terrorists a victory. Overreacting to terrorism is as bad as underreacting, because it demonstrates that you don't even have to be successful to scare the crap out of people and advance your cause. You can also not do retarded things which do nothing to make you safer, but do a lot to piss people off and make them more likely to want to kill your citizens. Following this rule, you probably wouldn't invade Iraq or Lebanon.