Abstract
The strategy of terror is a spectacularly failed one. 1 -Caleb Carr 1 Terror, like panic, might be almost impossible to sustain.It strikes and spikes with virtual simultaneity; it decays nearly as fast.It consumes personal and historical moments that might last beyond minutes and hours to days and weeks, but it rages too hot and ranges too far to leave fuel for durable burns.This, unfortunately, is the good news.The bad news is that terror all too readily recurs; and when it doesn't, it echoes -in some settings, seemingly without end.