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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for the comments thus far.

Of course, if DC is nuked, moving to the burbs will be of no help. But if the White House, Pentagon, and Congress were targeted - and maybe personal residences of Congress people - I would think being 10 miles away would be safer.

And yes, I do wonder if I need therapy. Living here and reading the news daily has become existential distress. But I still wanted to ask the question to understand how others think of the risk.

No, there hasn’t been a big international terrorist incident in the US since 9/11, but the US wasn’t provoking before the way that the crazy and cruel DJT administration is now. He is poking so many bears and inviting terrorism. [/quote]

The people who planned 9/11 thought we were doing plenty of provocation before that! Plus, after 9/11, the U.S. invaded a completely unrelated country, tortured people without judicial review, set off massive instability in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowed ISIS to spread across Iraq and Syria, conducted random drone strikes all around the Middle East and did plenty of other things that also definitely counted as poking bears. That's not to say Trump is a force for stability and calm, but I don't think the risk is exponentially worse now than it was before.[/quote]

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