Aw c'mon. People are only terrorized if they choose to be.
I've driven/walked by a hundred boxes/paper bags in the last five years without wetting my pants over the event.
If Osama is still breathing, he is laughing his head off about how successful he's been in turning the American public into a crowd of fainting pansies.
Dry undies here, too, but the responders had to react as if a threat did exist. Disruption of citizens' patterns and schedules resulted.
Wonder what the economic impact was? What was the effect on children and old people who might have been separated from their caretakers? How much worry and distraction occurred across the country by those having loved ones in Boston? The byproducts of this act were as surely terrorism as if they had attached explosive devices to the structures.
I agree . . . OBL is laughing, but not because Americans are pansies, it's because Turner Broadcasting did his work for him today. (IF OBL is still breathing)