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.