Don't overreact.

What I have in mind is terrorism happens here we overreact to it.

We overreact because being human, we feel like retaliating, and it gets worse and worse and worse.

There is evidence of a serious effort on the Palestinian side to maintain the calm and, on the Israeli side, of determination not to overreact to isolated incidents.

While it is important not to overreact to quarterly figures, recent data, as well as some of the revised data for the first quarter, are deeply disappointing. The pessimism of two years ago has returned with good reason.

Studies that show an association between a factor and a health effect should be regarded as no more than a preliminary result that points researchers toward further research and analysis. But even professional regulators, who should know better, sometimes get sidetracked by this sort of misapprehension, and overreact.

Indeed, poor management of international relations at such critical junctures has often led to major wars. Rising powers tend to demand a greater role in international politics, declining powers tend to be reluctant to adjust, and key policymakers are likely to misunderstand the intentions of other countries leaders and overreact to their actions.

As the international community perceives the terrorist threat to be increasing, both in terms of severity and breadth, there is a corresponding danger to overreact by implementing measures and mechanisms that may prove to be unnecessarily intrusive and, moreover, to keep them in place longer than necessary, thus allowing such measures to be embedded in the law.

For their part, terrorist groups, recognizing that they cannot defeat a conventional military in a direct war, attempt to use governments own power against them. With violent theatrics, Osama bin Laden outraged and provoked the US, driving it to overreact in ways that destroyed its credibility, weakened its alliances in the Muslim world, and ultimately exhausted its military and, in a sense, its society.