Letting yourself be terrorized

Here's a post from Bruce Schneier (which was gathered from some other blog) on how the Iraqis have shot themselves in the foot trying to prevent terror-by-chlorine.

So think about this the next time you have to walk through airport security and ponder how much time/money/effort is being spent to protect you on a flight. And while the negative effect airport security is an invasive and costly inconvenience that pales somewhat in comparison to an outbreak of cholera... the principle is still the same. Societies and governments are changing their behavior in direct response to the *prospect* of terrorism - which is precisely the goal of terrorism. It's sad really.