Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Absolutely. Terrorism's goal is, obviously, to create terror. If you're so terrified you that you want to hand over your previously inviolable rights then certainly they win. After all, they don't generally care about their lives--they're out to create havoc and screw things up for idealogical reasons. The only victory a terrorist can have is a political one, why hand it to them?
I'm curious why you think that's the goal of terrorism. You describe them as very rational.

Couldn't express what I was trying to say, so I went googling, check this out:

http://maxabrahms.com/pdfs/DC_250-1846.pdf