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Originally Posted by HarryT
Don't you realise that by saying that, you are letting these bastards "win"? That is precisely what they are trying to achieve.
If you look at the statistics, you'll find that the change of dying in a random act of terrorism is vanishingly small - certainly far smaller than being murdered in your own country (the US has a murder rate 70x higher than that of the UK, per head of population).
Nasty things can happen to you even if you stay at home. You've told us before, IIRC, that you have personal experience of that yourself.
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Yes, but at home, I don't get singled out simply because I am a tourist. I'd like to think that, while foreign tourists are from time to time hurt or killed in random acts of violence here in the States, no group who wants to simply massacre them because they are tourists will ever start operating here.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I hope ashkulz is ok, he's based in Bombay IIRC. Fortunately, none of my family was affected. As for RickyMaveety, a whole bunch of Bombay taxi drivers will be heart broken  |
No problem, Kovid. If I want to give business to an Indian cab driver, all I have to do is travel to any mid to large sized American city and hail a cab.
