Duh! Where we engage the enemy, they seem to attack more! In their preferred way!

ARTICLE: "Terrorist Attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan Rose Sharply Last Year, State Department Says: Where American troops are deployed, terrorism has risen," by Scott Shane, New York Times, 1 May 2007, p. A10.

"Japanese kamikazes appear to attack more where U.S. warships are concentrated: Intelligence experts describe 'failure' of U.S. Strategy"

Terrorism is up globally last year, except Iraq and Afghanistan account for the vast bulk of the increase.

So we're losing right? Or are we just engaging?

So international terrorism rules the world, except fewer die globally than from guns in the U.S. (30k to a mere 20k from terror). Don't even get me started on global crime gun deaths.

See what I mean about not rising above the noise?

Arquilla has a weird quote for such a smart guy. He says "these statistics suggest that our war on global terrorism is not going very well."

Hmmmm.

30k gun deaths in U.S. population of 300m versus global deaths from terror at 20k in a population of 6.5 billion!

Yes, we must be losing.

Terrorism is totally out of control and terrorists clearly run the world. That's why the global economy is expanding at an unprecedented rate.

Comments

[Tom Mull]

Tom B wrote: "30k murders in U.S. population of 300m versus global deaths from terror at 20k in a population of 6.5 million".

Tom M: Did you mean 20k in a population of 6.5 billon re global deaths from terror?

[Critt Jarvis]

Hmmm... dropped a few zeroes. Adding them back, it reads:

30k murders in U.S. population of 300m versus global deaths from terror at 20k in a population of 6.5 billion!

[Anonymous]

thanks, guys. i went back and fixed it.

[Tom Mull]

Hey: Tom M. gets an F for spelling and Critt gets and A. =)

[Anonymous]

hmm, Tom M. i don't see the first spelling error, but i see the second 'an A' ;-)

[Tom Mull]

"Billon"--didn't type enough and "and"--typed too much. You should have seen my typing before the invention of word processors and white out (hell I had to look up the spelling just now as to how to spell "before"--I wrote "befor" at first). =)