Security theater to treat criminal violence theater. It makes a perverse sort of sense. Terrorism is not really about deaths; there are many greater causes of

Security theater to treat criminal violence theater. It makes a perverse sort of sense. Terrorism is not really about deaths; there are many greater causes of preventable death, as you note. It's about attacking a nation's perception of safety. You can ignore another random car accident or drug-related murder, but it's much harder to ignore 9/11. I'd much prefer the vaccine to the "cure": to educate ourselves on this tactic and refuse to play along, treating terrorism the way we would treat a natural disaster. But alas, there's too much money and power to be gained in the security theater racket, and power abhors a vacuum.