Terrorism is a tricky business

“. . . terrorism doesn't frighten Western leaders as much as they pretend. Rather it's a potent weapon for political incumbents. Any magician will tell you that the secret of all conjuring tricks and illusions is misdirection. The audience is tricked into looking away while the switch is made or the trapdoor opened. Thus terror is used to trick the terrified, distracting attention from more urgent issues.
In Bush's case, from poverty, public health, decaying infrastructure, environmental scandals, budget blowouts. If you take the nail clippers from air travellers they mightn't notice the injustices of the Bush tax cuts. Terrorism is the biggest example of misdirection since Hitler blamed Germany's problems on the Jews. As he said: ‘If the Jews didn't exist we'd have to invent them.’ In the same way, the West invents the terrorist threat. The problems that cause terrorism are not addressed. The big money is spent on the advertising campaign known as the war on terror.” Terrorism is a tricky business by Phillip Adams in The Australian