An Era in Ideas: Terrorism - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education: Since 9/11, pundits and politicians proclaimed that terrorism had made America "vulnerable" and "fragile," and that it threatened to do away with "our way of life" or "civilization itself."
A former White House counterterrorism official prophesied that by the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the American economy would be shut down by chronic bombings of casinos, subways, and shopping malls, downings of airliners by shoulder-launched missiles, and acts of cataclysmic sabotage at chemical plants.
People tend to forget that a large portion of lack of attacks is due to the security in place along with the wars disrupting terrorists plans on a daily basis ~~ The Munz
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