What the Terrorists Want

I was reminded of this when I saw in today's Lexington Herald-Leader that a downtown 4-6 block radius was closed and evacuated because there was a "suspicious acting man trespassing, and a stop watch was found". This is from Bruce Schneier at Schneier on Security and I highly recommend reading it.
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Photo from here.
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What the Terrorists Want

...I'd like everyone to take a deep breath and listen for a minute.

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and
sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act.
And we're doing exactly what the terrorists want.

Thanks for the Link to the Eviiil DailyKos here.