Ten,
re: What's your solution for preventing another 9/11?
There is no "solution", it's like trying to prevent an earthquake.
But the terrorism card has been overplayed to the point where our entire policy is based on paranoia. There have been two foregin terrorist acts in the US during this generation, both targeted the same building, both were orchestrated by the same guy (who now lives in a cave). Other than that... zilch, nada, nothing. After 9/11 people were quaking in their fall out shelters, waiting for the "next wave" from the "sleeper cells". What's happened in over two years? Zilch, nada, nothing.
I'm not saying that there is no terrorist threat in this country, there is. I'm surprised there hasn't been some terrorist act in the last two years. But the odds of another act on the level of 9/11 are slim to none. A couple of suicide bombers would not surprise me in the least.
Bush and his cronies have used and are using 9/11 to reshape policy. To do that, they have to keep the fear fresh and alive, with an active color scheme and constant rhetoric.
What would I do to try and prevent another 9/11? Beef up domestic security, beef up intel, get very active in covert operations. What I wouldn't do is spend $Billions attacking Iraq, where there were no terrorists, and where it's just going to piss off a whole bunch of potential terrorists.
John |
