The bull in the china shop..................

     Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop.  The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single teacup.  So it finds a bull, gets inside its ear and starts buzzing.  The bull goes wild with fear and anger, and destroys the china shop.  This is what happened in the Middle East in the last decade.  Islamic fundamentalists could never have toppled Saddam Hussein by themselves.  Instead they enraged the USA by the 9/11 attacks, and the USA destroyed the Middle Eastern china shop for them.  Now they flourish in the wreckage.  By themselves, terrorists are too weak to drag us back to the Middle Ages and re-establish Jungle Law.  They may provoke us, but in the end, it all depends on our reactions.  If the Jungle Lay comes back into force, it will not be the fault of the terrorists.

-Yuval Noah Harari,  Homo Deus:  A Brief History of Tomorrow