Because of the unprecedented scale of Al Qaeda's attacks, the focus is properly on Islamic extremists. But it would be a mistake to limit our concern solely to Islamic terrorists, for that would ignore the way that technology is putting into the hands of deviant groups and individuals' destructive capabilities that were once limited primarily to governments and armies.
上述技术和意识潮流助长了恐怖主义的毁灭性，也使人们的应对更为困难。由于基地组织袭击的规模史无前例，焦点自然集中在了伊斯兰极端主义者身上。但仅限于关注伊斯兰恐怖分子是一个错误，因为这会忽略技术给叛乱组织和个人带来的破坏性力量，从前，这样的力量只有政府和军队才能掌握。