Are we in imminent danger?

Are we in imminent danger?

Jason Burke (Author) gives expert video advice on: Are we in imminent danger?; Why do Al Qaeda target civilians?; What is our foreign policy doing to our domestic security? and more...

We are in danger, whether that is imminent danger or distant danger is almost impossible to tell. There are a lot of people who want to cause significant damage to civilians in Europe - in the UK, in America and are researching the means to do so. That necessarily puts us in danger. Are our ways of life in danger? Probably not. Al Qaida has thrown a fair amount at us in the last five years. We have suffered a number of militant attacks that have been very frightening, that have killed numbers of people; and our democracies, our ways of life, have largely held firm. We are in danger but we shouldn't exaggerate the nature of that threat.