Occasionally, Dave Winer impresses me with his perspicacity. Mostly he's full of shit. (Sorry for the negative note here... but since promising to put me in his killfile he's unlikely to read personal email, and I still have to say this). Here's a whole paragraph, so I can't get accused of quoting out-of-context unless he edits it post hoc.

Then I heard a report about the IRA and Sinn Fein. I thought to myself "Poor Irish terrorists, they're not getting their fair share of the attention." Then I had a terrible thought. Maybe in the future the terrorists will compete to destroy pieces of the US to get CNN to tell their story and put their leaders on TV. Maybe Ireland wants to start a competitor to Al-Jazeera. What better way than to export some of your terror to the good ole US of A?