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StrategiaInUltima said:
Terrorism in the US is now impossible. Al Qaeda is practically beheaded and is without a firm base of operations. The US's internal and external security is so tight, that a large terrorist attack is virtually impossible.
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Impossible? I wouldn't go that far? Ever heard of the Alfred P. Murrow Federal building in Oklahoma City? Terrorism doesn't require an active, and well funded organization. A highly motivated individual acting alone, or in a small independant cell can do a lot of damage. My point wasn't that terrorism can't hurt us. Ironically my chances as an individual beign killed by terrorists is, though infinitesimally small, are greater than the risk of being killed by the soviet union ever were, short of an all out nuclear exchange of course. But the terrorist capabilty to cause serious damage to America as a whole is much smaller. Even if the worst case scenario were to happen and they took out a major city with a nuke or something, we would survive as a nation.