If you're innocent, why should you worry?

[Banquo's Ghost]

Here's an excellent article on the realities of the terrorist threat.

A terrorist set fire to his own trousers, suffering eyewateringly painful burns to what Australian cricket commentators sometimes refer to as the "groinal area", and nobody seems to be laughing. What's wrong with us?

As I've written before, the comprehensive attack on civil liberties is the best thing to happen to big government for years - modern-day terrorists need to do little more than watch our insane politicians accomplish everything they desire. Happily for al-Qa'eda, they also have over-enthusiastic eejits like the Slovak security services to really endanger lives.

[Vladimir]

But the truth of the matter is that there is no such enemy out there. Funds are occasionally available, true; the 9/11 plotters were quite well-backed, and even if a terrorist group has no access to oil or gas revenues there may be the option of dealing in heroin as the Taliban do. (Note that all of these sources of money ultimately come from us.)

But but, that isn't possible. The Taliban banned the production of opium. They would never condone such activity.

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I love it when someone brings that up.

[HoreTore]

But but, that isn't possible. The Taliban banned the production of opium. They would never condone such activity.

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I love it when someone brings that up.

The Taliban the state did. Taliban the resistance movement don't. Neither does anyone else in afghanistan right now for that matter....