Terrorism and Rights Edition
So, not even close to peak.
Yet Europeans in the 70s did not get rid of their civil liberties in the way that France, for example, has.
They also did not react with the frankly embarrassing pant-wetting fear we have seen.
Maybe that’s because in the 70s there were still plenty of people around who remembered World War II.
Terrorism is a serious threat to developed nations only because of our reaction to it.
We, or our leaders, or both, seem determined to give up liberties and freedom over a danger far less likely to kill any of us than walking across the street.
Ian Welsh