The left this the left that... it has nothing to do with the left or the right, it has to do with the facts. Terrorism isn't actually the problem it's made out to be. The minuscule amount of foreign terrorism in the US does not justify the extreme measures and trillions spent trying to prevent / stop it. This is especially true when homegrown terrorism is the more prevalent terrorism that occurs. These are facts, not opinions.
"The March, 2011, Harper‘s Index noted:
Number of American civilians who died worldwide in terrorist attacks last year: 8 — Minimum number who died after being struck by lightning: 29.
Indeed, the leading cause of deaths for Americans traveling abroad is not terrorism, or murder … or even crime of any type.
It’s car crashes.
In fact:
With the exception of the Philippines, more Americans died from road crashes in all of the 160 countries surveyed than from homicides.
The U.S. Department of State reports that only 17 U.S. citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2011. That figure includes deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq and all other theaters of war.
In contrast, the American agency which tracks health-related issues – the U.S. Centers for Disease Control – rounds up the most prevalent causes of death in the United States:"