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Originally posted by: BAGIANT
It ALWAYS seems to me that we react AFTER the fact! Do you think anyone is going to try and use airliners to attack the USA again? I don't. It just isn't worth the effort to inconvenience the public like they are doing to try and prevent another incident. When and IF they ever pull something again, we won't be prepared for it, and it will be in an area which we haven't protected. These people will attack at a place that isn't protected at all!
Agreed.
Western civilization is marked by its public freedoms. Those freedoms leave our safety open to exploit. In any society I hope to live, there will always lots of opportunities for the worst of us to do terrible damage.
That's not to say we shouldn't take care to minimize those risks. But we'll never eliminate them. Not if we want to preserve a society worth living in.
