[aristeides]

It may be that the one thing that our government could do, in some cases, is to not let them have the 'credit' they want and thereby uninspire/discourage more terrorism.

And one result of that, once it becomes obvious to people that the government is lying, is that people attribute everything to terrorism.

[juzcuz]

Goverment lying--

How long would it be before we would discover that our government lied about something, maybe twenty-thirty years from now? Lately, everyone has been attributing all our disasters to accidents, some maybe then again some may not be. I don't know..

[Lion's Cub]

And one result of that, once it becomes obvious to people that the government is lying, is that people attribute everything to terrorism.

And another is that the group keeps going for bigger or more spectacular attacks that the government can't pass off as accidents.

If the DC snipers had continued on their path of just shooting one victim here or there, the government would have kept passing it off as robberies/random shootings.