Spook Country, section 2, question 4, third response,,,, i think??

In chapter 29, Gibson makes a lot of interesting points about the war on terrorism and America’s role in the war on terrorism. Milgrim says that if you are scared of a terrorist, you essentially are letting the terrorist win because that is what a terrorists goal is, to “terrorize” you. Personally, I would have to say that I agree with Gibson on this point because a terrorist, while he/she is a very dangerous person, a terrorist is simply that, one person, so how much “damage” can one single terrorist really do? There is no such thing as a person who is bigger or more important or more dangerous than a country, so the idea of being deathly afraid of a terrorist is relatively unthinkable to me, especially since the chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are so minute, as minute as the chances of winning the lottery, which Gibson also points out in the text.
Also, I have to disagree with the notion that Gibson is trying to make a real-life political statement by having this scene as a part of “Spook Country.” I think that Gibson is trying to demonstrate Milgrim’s views about the war on terrorism, not his own. It is very possible that Gibson does agree with the view of fearing a terrorist being pointless, and the idea that if a nations laws are situational, that nation has no laws, but I feel that in this situation he was simply trying to go in-depth with the feelings of the characters in his novel. Gibson seems like a very professional person to me, so I feel that if he had a problem with something the government was doing he would find the proper forum to say so, he would not make a backhanded statement in one of his novels to display his unhappiness.

Vikings-27 49ers-24, an amazing finish as Favre does it again and snatches victory from the jaws of defeat with a 32 yard TD pass to Greg Lewis with 2 seconds left to win the game, Minnesota 3-0.