Topical question, in the UK news.

[mr self destruct]

Don't believe for one second that these people won't attempt to terrorise us again, whether we move in or not.
And how can you tell if these civilians are not indeed the terrorists that were being aimed at in the first place?

This is why IMO the best course of action is no action. If we go in we'll be kicking a hornets nest.
I believe bombing any country only serves to make the population more inclined to hate those doing the bombing and swell the ranks of those we're supposed to be defeating.
Also, their tactics are small scale acts of terrorism. Killing a few people, and putting the fear of god into thousands more, tying up billions of pounds in investigations, surveillance and military action. That's where the real damage is done, rather than the lost lives of the victims.
What the terrorists want is for us to give in to fear, to change the way we live because of that fear.
So how do we fight the terrorists? We as the public don't. We let our secret services carry on doing their jobs, let the counter-terrorism units do their work, and we carry on with our lives as normal.
If we close our borders to one and all, they've won.
If we refuse to use the London Underground, they've won.
If we get uncomfortable when a foreign-looking person sits next to us on a bus, they've won.
If one young British Muslim lad gets so pissed off with constantly being viewed with suspicion that he starts to hate the very country he was born in, they've won.


So let's take that away from them. Let's not fear or hate them, but show complete indifference, raise a middle finger to them and say "Fuck you, we're living how we want to live and you're not gonna change a fucking thing."


Because, to put the albeit tragic deaths of all terrorists' victims into context, very very few lives are lost due to terrorism.


According to these statistics:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicde...y-chart-10
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_safet...dex_en.htm
There have been less than 500 terrorism related deaths in western Europe in the last 14 years.
There have been 552400 road traffic deaths in Europe in the same period. So over 1000 times more people die in traffic accidents than due to terrorism.


Even then, compare that with this:
http://www.escardio.org/static_file/Esca...s-2012.pdf
1.9 million deaths per year, so 26.6 million in the same period, of cardiovascular disease.


And which of these causes of death are we worried about most? Muslims.


If we're going to change the way we live, let's start eating better and looking where we're fucking driving before we kick out Johnny Foreigner.