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Sometimes I think about becoming a liberal version of Instapundit, because what more can I say about Pandagon, countering the arguement that the 380 tons of explosives is such a small amount overall, but "indeed?"

Terrorism: we've mostly confronted it.

Only .02% of all explosives...wow. In 2001, there were 5,967,780 flights. The September 11th attacks constituted four of those. That constitutes a proportion so infinitessimally small that it's almost like none of the flights in 2001 were hijacked at all - it's like the attacks never happened.

Why doesn't anyone ever focus on the fact that 99.9999994% (or so) of all flights in America in 2001 were perfectly safe? Why are we so preoccupied with those oh-so-few flights that killed a few thousand people?

Indeed.