Originally Posted by
cbn42
Yes, but on what criteria?
As we established earlier, terrorism is so rare that you can't measure changes in terrorist activity from year to year in any meaningful way.
It's not easy---or at all meaningful---to calculate the year to year
change in the probability we will be hit by a meteor either. Yet somehow, we've have managed to figure out that we shouldn't spend a gazillion dollars building a force field to protect us (even though saving the Earth is a compelling interest). Maybe spending $Billions to grope grannies is not reasonable either. @:-)
It's called risk management. And, in fact, it's pretty easy to do if you take politics out of the equation. Maybe we should have this done by an independent organization to minimize the political BS?