What Conor Friedersdorf Misunderstands About Terrorism
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June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Very smart libertarians often makean argument against muscular counterterrorism efforts (I preferthis term over “war on terror,” because “war on terror” remindsme of Donald Rumsfeld).
It goes like this: Why do we obsess over terrorism when a)guns, b) drunken drivers, c) any number of terrible diseases andd) bathtubs kill so many more people each year than radicalIslamists ever have?