What do you want to fight: terrorism or death?

Dr. Erica Frank of the Emory University School of Medicine provides a wonderful cost-benefit analysis of the resources we have misdirected to the "war on terror." In reports posted on several news sites this morning, Dr. Frank notes that on September 11, 2001, 1800 more Americans died from common diseases than from the terrorist attacks. And those disease-related deaths have kept happening at that rate every day since 9/11. Yet we ignore the mundane and divert our attention and limited government resources to the spectacular.