What I wish ANY politician would say about terrorism

[JaredL]

"Relative to a lot of other things, terrorism isn't so bad. We would be better off spending a sizable portion of our national security budget elsewhere"

According to Wikipedia, 2,973 people in addition to the 19 hijackers died on September 11. It was an attack on a scale unimaginable before that. Granted, if we spent our money on other things it would make it a bit more likely that future attacks would happen, but even in that case it's not so bad.

According to the National Safety Council in 2003:
- 48,071 or about 16x the number that died on 9/11, died in some sort of "transport accident"
- 19,960 of these, over 6x the number that died on 9/11, died in car, pick-up truck, or van accidents
- 17,229 people, about 6x the number that died on 9/11, died of some sort of accidental fall
- 3,306 drowned
- 3,369 died from "Exposure to smoke, fire and flames"
- 19,457 died from "Accidental poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances," including 9231 of "Narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens]" (rec drug OD I guess) and 7648 of "Other and unspecified drugs, medicaments, and biologicals" which I guess would be ODing on some sort of prescription drug.
- 31,484 people (> 10x the number dying on 9/11) committed suicide
- 5462 poisoned themselves
- 6635 hung, strangled, or suffocated themselves
- 16,907 people killed themselves with a gun
- 17,732 people were murdered
- 11,920 with a gun
- 2049 with a knife
- 2,855 died due to "Complications of medical and surgical care and sequelae"

Obviously it's impossible to say how many people would have died due to terrorist attacks had the budget been changed, but it seems pretty clear to me that money could be better spent elsewhere.

For example, if the government invested money that was dedicated to helping auto companies make cars safer, that would reduce the 40-50 thousand people that die in an autoaccident each year somewhat. Even reducing these by a percent would save 400-500 lives a year. Removing enough money to accomplish this from the national security budget would surely not cost us that many.

Similarly, instead of chasing terrorists around in other countries, perhaps we could do something about the much more important crime problem here. Increasing resources available to those that help prevent suicide would go a lot further than it does to "keep us safe from terrorists."

The above figures are only deaths "by injury." This says nothing about how much further money would go if invested in medical research (though that would probably help with the last stat above).

What are the odds that any politician will make such a statement?