[ganeumann]

Well, it's not. Not unless you live in one of a very few countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Nigeria, or Iraq, http://qz.com/552334/more-people-died-from-terrorism-last-ye...).

People forget that there has always been terrorism and that it has historically been much worse than it is now. Scroll down a bit to the chart of international terror attacks on the US in this report: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/05/terror-tren... (You can also run your own custom report here: http://smapp.rand.org/rwtid/search_form.php)

The 1970s and 1980s were much more dangerous in the US and Western Europe than the 1990s and 2000s. The idea that we are now fighting terrorists and weren't before is ahistorical nonsense. The idea that terrorism is more dangerous in the US today than it has been is purely a result of politically motivated fear-mongering. In the US at least, there is always a war on something. If it's not the cold war, it's the war on drugs, or the war on terror. It's just another system of control.