Roughly half a million children are abducted in the United States every year, that’s more than a thousand per day. 600,000 people are raped every year. 150 work-related deaths occur EVERY DAY. 20,000 people are murdered every year. And these are conservative figures.
Do you really think they care about the safety and security of their people? Does anyone really believe that capturing and killing American hostages can move the government to war? They didn’t declare war on Abu Sayyaf in Mindano when they beheaded a US citizen. They certainly didn’t declare war on Israel when the jews ran over American Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer.
No. They pretend to be in danger to obscure the unparalleled danger they pose to the rest of the world.
The accusation of “terrorism” is most often used, not to de-legitmize violence, but to justify the violence of the accuser against the accused.