While the horrors of terrorism are definitively monstrous and repelling, why do we allocate so much of our time, resources, fear, television time, and most importantly, our young men, when in fact, terrorism is nothing compared to more urgent issues. For Zeus’s sake, terrorism is a blip in deaths compared to cancers, car crashes, drugs, basically anything really. Just in the U.S. you are 142 times more likely to die of a car crash than of terrorism within the past 10 years: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/6/332
And this especially makes my blood boil:
Since 2001, 2,996 people in the United States have died from terrorism – all as a result of the 9/11 attacks. In that same period of time, 490,000 people have died from prescription drugs, not counting the Vioxx scandal. That means that prescription drugs in this country are at least 16,400 percent deadlier than terrorism. Again, those are the conservative numbers. A more realistic number, which would include deaths from over-the-counter drugs, makes drug consumption 32,000 percent deadlier than terrorism. But the scope of "Death by Medicine" is even wider. Conventional medicine, including unnecessary surgeries, bedsores and medical errors, is 104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism.
From: http://www.naturalnews.com/009278.html
104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism!!!!! Our drugs and medical errors are 104,700% deadlier than terrorism. Why do we partake in the propaganda and hysteria that tells us we need to fear terrorism and kill people when we can be PREVENTING the deaths of so many Americans (and Iraqis, Afghanis, et al.), on U.S. soil, and abroad?
I did mention cancers…
Good arguments, but through education, better automobiles, an FDA that actually did its job, preventing the over prescription of drugs, longer trials for drug companies, etc.. All of these combined can and will bring the death toll down. And terrorism is surely preventable. The terrorists did NOT attack us because we are free and prosperous. They attacked us for the sole reason that we have been meddling in their affairs ever since we could build ships and have an empire. We consistently invade, pillage, overthrow and terrorize their countries, and noone expects a backlash? It finally has come, and finally on our own soil.
