Plus there's the issue of how many terrorist attacks there would be if there was indeed no response. We all know the answer to that one: we'd all be living und

Plus there's the issue of how many terrorist attacks there would be if there was indeed no response. We all know the answer to that one: we'd all be living under "amateur" Taliban, Mafias and worse anywhere near any large city, with constant public executions for "sacrilege" and for "competing" with the Mafia, and for ... There would be no international (or generally non-private) flights, and so on.