DragonStorm247 said:
But in the last decade I'm realizing that we lost the War on Terror.
It's looking that way isn't it? Terrorism is all about causing fear and disrupting people's lives, so when you've got highly advanced technical systems spying on people's email, internet and phone usage, CCTV everywhere, x-ray scanners in airports, the TSA patting down kids, and a huge mass hysteria where everyone's paranoid about terrorism, with kids getting sent to prison for five months without even being convicted, then yes you have to say that the terrorists have won.
I'll say it plainly and clearly, sacrificing all your social liberties and freedoms to be safe is actually more dangerous than what any terrorist could do, because as bad as terrorist attacks are more people die from cancer, smoking, car accidents, shootings both accidental and deliberate and drink/drug related incidents every year than those who are killed by terrorists, yet the response is grossly disproportional.