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I suppose the whole notion of declaring a ‘War on Terror’ demonstrates that you have not really grasped how to effectively deal with the extremist tactic of terrorism in the first place, but baby steps are still a good thing.  Fareed Zakaria is driven to have to write the obvious in one of the State’s biggest papers:

The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an overreaction. Its real aim is not to kill the hundreds of people directly targeted but to sow fear in the rest of the population. Terrorism is an unusual military tactic in that it depends on the response of the onlookers. If we are not terrorized, then the attack didn’t work. Alas, this one worked very well.

It’s shameful and disappointing that this needs to be pointed out. At least in the year 2010 there are easily accessible tools that allow for the dissemination of this basic point. You don’t have to go to far back in time to get to a place where the garment rending of scared neo-cons is all that one can hear.

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