The Homeland Security Dilemma, dissected:
John Mueller Department of Political Science Ohio State University [...]There seem to be at least five premises which must be taken into consideration when formulating policy for protecting the homeland, for seeking to make it "invulnerable."
1. The number of potential terrorist targets is essentially infinite
2. The probability that any individual target will be attacked is essentially zero
3. If one potential target happens to enjoy a degree of protection, the agile terrorist usually can readily move on to another one
4. Most targets are "vulnerable" in that it is not very difficult to damage them, but invulnerable in that they can be rebuilt in fairly short order and at tolerable expense
5. It is essentially impossible to make a very wide variety of potential terrorist targets invulnerable except by completely closing them down
That's what I've been thinking. But the TSA and related programs provide thousands of new government jobs, so...
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Walter, this sounds like a response by someone who writes manuals for a living, and then has to call the hot-line to the swing set company that he bought for his kid because he can't understand the directions in the manual.
I think we need to take the "knee-jerk reaction" when it comes to terrorism. It's time we had Slim Pickens ridding the bomb like in "Dr Strangelove". Enough dissecting...By the way I owe your $5 dollars for the tip at Los Dos last Friday-I'll get you Monday.
They should hit targets owned by lower-level government agencies. It takes 10 years just to get a replacement designed, what with the need for a memorial, a day-care center, offices for various uninvolved NGOs and the contracts let to the cronies of a succession of mayors.