The total number of international terrorist attacks in 2003 -- 190
incidents that killed 307 people -- was the lowest since 1969,

And all surely because we were staying 100 yards away from ferrys. :-)

Those poor folks in Madrid should have stayed 100 yards away from the trains.
That's going to blow hell out of next year's
terrorist statistics. We've got to be ahead of 2003's 307 already- and it's
only April.

One death a year is one too many.

What sad frickin times we live in, that there are people so amoral or so
desperate
or both that they kill innocent people to advance a particular agenda. How sad,
as well, that so many people try to use the suffering and death of others
(after the fact) to promote one political party or the other.

All reasonable people agree that we need to solve the "terrorist" problem.
Reasonable people will continue to disagree about the best means to do so.

Cruised to Port Orchard last weekend, across the bay from the Bremerton Navy
Yard. They've got a serious security barrier floating out in the bay all along
the row of warships being fitted or overhauled there.
There's no doubt we'll see more and more evidence of being "at war" as we use
our boats this year.