that events that inflated the risk that we feel about terrorism and indirectly led to the united states being immeshedtwo wars. i talk in the book about the contrast between terrorism and the phenomenon of suicide. in the eight years since the september 11 attacks, more than 250,000 americans have died as a result of suicide than from terrorism. but we don't think about suicide as a risk. we don't wake up in the morning and say am i at risk for suicide? is my family at risk for suicide? our brains and unconscious minds are predisposed to fear certain threats and not other kinds of threats. we fear the kind of threats that other people pose us. we fear the psycho path on the loose. we don't think we ourselves mark may pose ourselves risk by not exercising or smoking or running our lives to the ground and feeling like we may need to commit suicide. we are aware about the risks that other people pose us. these translate eventually into policy decisions that affect thousands, millions of lives, including, i think, whether countries go to war. tavis: the last few minutes i have here, thankfully having said