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> A notice that foreign travel is not safe will deter some people. The problem is that foreign travel is safe and all this fear-mongering is unjustified. 99%
by morgante 11y ago
> A notice that foreign travel is not safe will deter some people.
The problem is that foreign travel is safe and all this fear-mongering is unjustified.
99% of people who travel to a foreign country are completely safe. Saying anything to the contrary is pure fear-mongering.
- codyb 11y agoIt has to be higher than that. Probably 99.9, maybe 99.99%. Possibly greater. But yea.
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- frandroid 11y agoAnd it's a much higher number than 99%. This page[0] reports 68M exits in 2014... How many Americans have died travelling abroad due to terrorism in 2014? 5? 50? 500? [0]: http://travel.trade.gov/view/m-2014-O-001/index.html http://travel.trade.gov/view/m-2014-O-001/index.html
- krapp 11y agoOn the other hand, if Daesh does kill a lot of Americans overseas anytime soon, it becomes a Republican stalking horse alongside Benghazi. I think it's less fear-mongering than election-season politics.