What terrorism does is to multiply the effect of a single successful attack by multiple threats of a follow-on. These become more urgent and strident in inverse proportion to the ability of the principals to actually carry them out.
In short, enough trash talk. Put up or shut up.
4 posted on 08/13/2004 12:00:14 AM PDT by Billthedrill
What terrorism does is to multiply the effect of a single successful attack by multiple threats of a follow-on.
So it's kind of like a guy serving in Viet Nam 35 years ago who keeps milking it and milking it despite the fact that he hasn't done anything noteworthy since then.