A Safer Place

[ASUmusicMAN]

(I don't know if this should go in general news or politics so I just threw it here, feeel free to move)

A professor I know put this up on his blog, and I found it most interesting

I thought this was interesting. The State Department put together a partial list of "Significant Terrorist Incidents" between 1961 and the end of last year. Now, they admit that the list “is not intended to be a complete or comprehensive account of all terrorist incidents during these years,” but even so, some startling trends are evident given that the reported incidents are world-wide and do not just consider events relating directly to this country. I went ahead and generated a graph:

Incident rate is the 1980’s was 3.5/yr, in the 90’s 7.5 /yr, and in the first four years of this decade, 29 incidents per year. After September 11th 2001 alone there were 95 incidents, i.e. an average of 3.5 incidents a month - the rate per year in the 1980’s.

Kabul and the Taliban fell on November 13th 2001. Baghdad fell on April 10th 2003. The administration declared “mission accomplished” on May 1st 2003. Hussein was captured December 13th 2003. It is debatable if any of these events have made the world a “safer place” as GWB has claimed.

[Wolfie]

I'm sure the response from the Bush administartion would be you used pseudo-science to plot your graph therefore like the global warming trend it does not mean anything. :rolleyes: :D

[DudeAsInCool]

Its particularly alarming when our military forces are being spread out, as opposed to going all out after Al Queda, the biggest thread...