Daily Kos: throughout history, terror has been a threat. Always.

by agnostic
Sat Aug 19, 2006 at 10:27:11 AM PDT

Any global traveler can describe the beauty of the most famous and beautiful tourist destinations. The most ancient parts of Europe, the muddle east, China, even Africa have monuments to man's inhumanity to man.

The walled city of Vilnius, with its beautiful Ausros Vartai city gate, the moats and city walls surrounding the gorgeous city of Vienna, Strassburg, Budapest, the great wall of China, old Tibetan cities, castles and ancient walled cities near Bangkok, the original Edo of Japan, the walls protecting Aztec and Mayan ruins, moats around British and Scotish castles, - in fact, every single place where man has resided since historical times, you can still see huge monuments of industry, science and labor aimed at self-protection.