The attacks in America on September 11th, 2001 ignited an era of extreme reaction, still reverberating today. Not only was the American public convinced to support attacking the wrong enemy in Iraq, costing an estimated half million lives, but in the extreme policy measures adopted in the wake of the attacks, each citizen became a terror suspect. Knee-jerk policy reaction is not sober action. It mimics the extremes of its enemy, misses the mark, and we will never defeat the enemy by mirroring the it.