Mostly Fertilizer

Charley Reese puts the terrorism threat in perspective.
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Excerpt:

The terrorists killed 3,000; homicides totaled 12,000. Moreover, that year, about 101,000 Americans were killed in accidents. About 2 million died of natural causes. Why sit around fretting about terrorists when flu and pneumonia in 2001 killed 62,000 Americans. As hard as it might be to believe, in 2001, more than 15,000 Americans were killed in falls, most of them in and around the home.

The only thing you need to do to protect yourself from a terrorist attack is be someplace else. In a country of 3 million square miles, 99.99 percent of us will always be someplace else. As a threat to human life, terrorism ranks somewhere close to snake and spider bites.

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War on Drugs:
Politicians identify a threat, exaggerate it and implement policies designed to maximize the harm caused by the threat.

War on Terror:
Politicians identify a threat, exaggerate it and implement policies designed to maximize the harm caused by the threat.

Goverment programs generally tend to subsidise the very ills they claim to address.