> it's an incredibly efficient way to disrupt a nation
As other commenters pointed out, it's only efficient at disrupting a nation if the nation itself decides to disrupt itself.
The right way to react to a terrorist attack is to ignore it. Simple as that. You chase the perpetrators like ordinary members of an organized crime group. Anything above that is achieving the terrorists' plan.
All the money America spends on "War on Terror", including NSA, is actually the cost of 9/11. If the US wanted to really effectively prevent further terrorist attacks, it would defund the NSA. Right now all that counterterrorism measures are only actively inviting further attacks - everyone can see that it takes only a bunch of civilian casualties to make the nation go completely nuts and drive itself to destruction.
As other commenters pointed out, it's only efficient at disrupting a nation if the nation itself decides to disrupt itself.
The right way to react to a terrorist attack is to ignore it. Simple as that. You chase the perpetrators like ordinary members of an organized crime group. Anything above that is achieving the terrorists' plan.
All the money America spends on "War on Terror", including NSA, is actually the cost of 9/11. If the US wanted to really effectively prevent further terrorist attacks, it would defund the NSA. Right now all that counterterrorism measures are only actively inviting further attacks - everyone can see that it takes only a bunch of civilian casualties to make the nation go completely nuts and drive itself to destruction.