A newspaper columnist that gets it....
Sep 17, 2006 | 11:41 am
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A newspaper columnist that gets it....
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/...h.20e8b20.html
...However, today it is an axiom that the deadliest effect may be not what terrorists do to society, but what society does to itself out of fear.
I think this is happening to us. We spend billions on preventive measures, none of which has caught a terrorist, when our major goal should be their identification and extermination.
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Meanwhile, our so-called flight security here in America is purely reactive....
.... All reactive, all passive, all as if choreographed by Osama and his pals.
I think this is happening to us. We spend billions on preventive measures, none of which has caught a terrorist, when our major goal should be their identification and extermination.
....
Meanwhile, our so-called flight security here in America is purely reactive....
.... All reactive, all passive, all as if choreographed by Osama and his pals.
Sep 17, 2006 | 10:51 pm
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For what it's worth, the September 16 column is part two of two.
Part one:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/...h.19ed3b0.html
Part one:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/...h.19ed3b0.html