Why does EndingTerrorism.com Exist?Here is a question asked about EndingTerrorism.com:
The scenarios covered on EndingTerrorism.com are well known. For example, Tom Clancy has written about dozens of terrorist scenarios in books read by millions of people. Terrorists are aware of Clancy's scenario where terrorists culture Ebola virus and dispense it at trade shows (which Clancy has discussed in intricate detail in two different books). Terrorists are aware that oil refineries are good targets, and so on. Even though the scenarios are well known, when most people encounter EndingTerrorism.com they are shocked. They have never seen all of the scenarios collected together in one place. They have never really thought about how naked we are, and how little we are doing. They have never looked at America through the eyes of a terrorist -- the same eyes that attacked America on September 11. What is amazing is that, even though these scenarios are well known to all terrorists, and all military planners, we are doing little or nothing to prevent most of the scenarios. For example, there is nothing being done right now to prevent or detect the release of Ebola at trade shows. There is nothing being done to protect refineries. And so on. Yes, there might be two guards in a pickup truck at the refinery and a chain link fence around it. That is not security against terrorists. Yes, we x-ray shoes for explosives at the airport, but that does not eliminate gaping holes in the security of chemical plants. Terrorism is a very large, multi-faceted problem, and we need a comprehensive plan that solves the whole thing. Public pressure is the only thing that will cause government and industry to get serious about the problems and close these large security holes before it is too late. The U.S. is startlingly vulnerable right now. Think about how unprepared we were on September 11. It caught everyone completely by surprise. Airports were unprepared when 19 terrorists walked through their gates. Pilots and flight attendants were unprepared when the terrorists came at them with box cutters. Air traffic controllers were unprepared when terrorists took over the flights. The Air Force did not respond to shoot down the planes. In short, no one was ready for the scenario. No one had prepared for or rehearsed a response. The public was completely oblivious to the possibility. Airport security, the FBI, the CIA, the INS, the military -- systems built at a cost of billions of dollars per year -- all failed simultaneously. The goal of EndingTerrorism.com is to prevent that level of naiveté from ever happening again. The terrorists had their act completely together on September 11. We are the ones who did not. The terrorists perfectly executed a scenario they had planned for years. We stood by in dumbfounded bewilderment and watched helplessly, because no one had ever suggested that such a scenario was possible. Why do I care? Because I do not want to die in a terrorist attack. I do not want my children to die in a terrorist attack. I do not want you or your neighbors to die in a terrorist attack. It is as simple as that. September 11 should not have happened. Let's educate ourselves and do everything we can to prevent it from happening again.
Sincerely,
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