Attack Warning Red

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by eddie

I don't think anyone is worried that ISIS will come marching through London or New York anytime soon, but with AQ calling for more attacks by individuals instead of anything like the subway attack or 9/11 all over again, I think the "Lonewolf" attack might be what their going on about. Like when that British soldier was killed recently in the UK, or something on the order of the bombings in Boston.

No reason for anyone to get super paranoid about it, but if something bad happens, and our Governments didn't say anything about a terrorist threat, we'd be all over them about that too.

Aye, that's likely the case, I just have to shake my head when I consider the 1960s-90s where we had much more regular acts of terrorism than today and yet nowhere near the amount of governmental hysteria about it. Admittedly the IRA wasn't prone to sending suicide bombers across, but people in London were used to bomb scares, tube station closures, and the occasional car bomb or pipe bomb.
If it happens, it happens, but yeah, you're right, society has changed now and we'd only go "why wasn't there any warning?!" if it did.