If so, that would make the feeling mutual. And we are on course for a lot more dead people, in any case. It's just a matter of who's going to do the dying.
We have the advantages of economic power and military strength. Our biggest disadvantage is our moral code which is keeping us from returning the declaration of total war made on Sept 11.
Not so. Our biggest disadvantage is not being able to locate our enemies.
It's like the movie Jurassic Park. It ends with the implication that man has a truly formidable competitor now, the revived dinosaurs. That's ridiculous. To take care of that threat all we would require is bigger guns, (which we already have). I'd like to see a T-Rex eat an M1 tank!
On the other hand, a virus (like HIV or smallpox) is a true threat. Not because it is big and powerful, but because it is so small and inconspicuous we can't locate it.
Terrorists are viruses. The minute they are located, they are dead. The problem is that it is very difficult to locate them.
Luckily, they are much more like a cold virus than smallpox or Ebola. They have the ability to disrupt and inconvenience.our society. They do not presently have the ability to destroy it.