On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 Charlie Stross <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:charlie.stross@gmail.com" target="_blank">charlie.stross@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> If you want to reduce death tolls, focus on self-driving cars. Auto accidents kill more people in the USA every month than 9/11 killed as a one-off. </div></blockquote><div><br>True, but imagine if after 9/11 the USA had done nothing to the organization that did it nor to the government that protected it, imagine if they had implicitly said that you can attack the USA at will and there would be no negative consequences of any sort; there would have been a 9/11 every month or something worse, possibly much much worse. An attack of the magnitude of 9/11 simply cannot go unanswered and to expect something otherwise is just silly.<br>
<br> John K Clark <br></div><div><br> </div><br></div>