How to react to terrorism

David’s got an interesting entry on the US vs UK reactions to “terrorism” – I use inverted commas as the US definition of it is all encompassing ….
I was living in Paris when there was a spate of bombings in the 90s and actually commuted via some of the affected stations. Life just went on, though people may have checked under their seats more often for “packages”. The only discernible difference was that all the rubbish bins were cemented up…