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terrorists are not purely seeking to maximize their body count; instead, they want to maximize the amount of fear they inflict on a population so as to alter its behavior in some way. Death and destruction are just a means toward that end. “You may kill people to achieve that,” Rumsfeld told me. “But that is not its purpose.”
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
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