Ten years after 9/11, do you think the world is a safer place?

We have lots more "theatre" and other things that waste millions of people's time around the world, but no, we aren't any safer. Anyone with a little smarts can design ways to kill thousands of people if you don't care about being caught.

Governments around the world are wasting hundreds of billions of $$ annual on this stuff based on fear that a single person will be harmed. Much of that spending is being misused for other purposes or just to feed the spy industry.

not safer place ...but more an more "unsafe."

Ten years after 9/11, do you think the world is a safer place?

With specific regard to Islamist terrorism? Terrorism in general? Wars in general?

We certainly are not safer, not because of technology or a hard policy o terrorist organizations. Simply because of a deteriorating global economy, and I'm sure we all know what happens Economies come crashing down.

Absolutely not. The US's short-sighted policies of "invade everyone" made the next generation of terrorists. The world economy is in the tank and doesn't look so optimistic to recover soon.

No, it hasn't become safer.

The U.S.A.'s panic over "terrorism," massive destruction in Iraq, Afghanistan and other middle Eastern countries have turned people against it.

The Patriot Act has turned what used to be a free country into something not that different from the old USSR.

At the bottom of this, we are told is oil.

Whether that is true or not, I don't know. But I do know that for the astronomical amount of money spent on arms and wars, the U.S.A. could have researched and found an alternative source of power and earned the respect of the world.

It's a pity it didn't.

No, imho, the world was a safer place when the US and Soviet Union balanced either out with MAD.

Now a days anybody can terrorize anyone just about anywhere.

Yubaru-san

Nothing new about terrorism.

The ancient Brits did it to the Romans and I'd be willing to bet that it was around tens of thousands of years before that.

Terrorism isn't an enemy.

Terrorism is a way of fighting an enemy.

We were told that the last ten years of fighting were the "War on Terror."

Now that's a war that can NEVER be won.

How can you win a war against a way of fighting?

It's like a "War on Anger," or a "War against using the "F" word."

Well, I think it has made the world a bit safer, especially for travelling. The heightened security at airports has decreased the number of potential loons boarding planes with malicious intent. However, as for terrorism in general, it has little effect. It is no different to the situation in Australia 20 odd years ago when guns were banned. There was a slogan floating around at the time, 'If guns are outlawed, only the outlaws will have guns'. Terrorism will still prevail regardless of measures taken to prevent it.

The results of this poll sure don't say much for the effectiveness of the War on Terror.

Taka

It just made everyone more paranoid.

johninnahaSep. 12, 2011 - 03:06PM JST No, it hasn't become safer. The U.S.A.'s panic over "terrorism," massive destruction in Iraq, Afghanistan and other middle Eastern countries have turned people against it. The Patriot Act has turned what used to be a free country into something not that different from the old USSR.

Yeah, the biggest terrorists out there are the U.S. government. Yes, 9/11 was horrible, but the U.S. has killed tens thousand times that number of people, abducts people from their home countries to be tortured in U.S. facilities overseas, and generally terrorises the rest of the world.

I don't feel it's much safer than 2001. It just seems more like "Big Brother" and George F. Bush is watching over your shoulder. Kind of like the Stazi in the former East Germany.

It does not feel safer, however it does not feel any more dangerous either.

nothing has changed, just more media coverage and internet feeds to make sure you don't forget for a second