Terror. Does anyone care?

I wasn't in the slightest affected by 9/11 or the war in Afghanistan or Iraq or any of it. I suppose I have our brave military men and women who risk their lives to keep me safe at night to thanks, but politically I am completely apathetic and more concerned with not getting run over by a car, unluckily being diagnosed with a terminal illness or falling down a staircase and breaking my neck or some other random tragedy than being a victim of a terror attack.

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Exactly.  Terrorism should be treated as a serious concern; however, the success of the 9/11 attacks should not be treated as the true scope of that concern.  The 9/11 attackers were extraordinarily lucky and aided by incompetant homeland security.  Nothing like it will ever happen again (until suitcase nukes are readily available), and spending 700 billion annually on our defense budget has very little to do with the reason we have not been attacked on US soil since 2001.