As I said, terrorism works. It doesn't matter if an attack is successful, only that it was tried, becuase it scares the intended people.

It scares the people, who ask the politicians to protect them from "those people" over there.

It scares the politicians, who are afraid someone will blame them for not doing enough. So they get more oppressive, and without an invasion, you can only really opress your own people.

The government presses down on everyone, making everyone's life harder, but it presses down just a little more on "those people".

"Those people", who happen to be our neighbors, our coworkers, our classmates, and up until a few weeks ago, our friends, start to resent being singled out just becuase their parents came from the country that the real turds live in.

"Those people"'s children take that resentment and turn it into something ugly. While at the same time, the turds can turn to thier supporters and say "we are the good guys- look at what they do to us".

And if the government decides to opress someone else, and invades another country were the turds are a minority (not turd supporters, but the real deal- if supporting turds was a crime, half the cops and feds in Chicago and Boston in the 70s and 80s should be hung for supporting the IRA via NORAID). And in the process, you make more turd supporters, some of whom get angry enough to turn into turds themselves.

And so forth and so on.