Joseph Tainter wrote: > I'm less afraid of being blown to smithereens over the > North Atlantic than I am frustrated to exasperation with ineffective > and disruptive counter-measures. > > Me too. I suspect that much of the overreaction is CYA. No official > wants to be the one who did too little. No politician wants to be > vulnerable to a charge of "soft on terrorism."
Damned few people, Americans or otherwise, would be willing to tolerate the strictures required, or the acts required, to fully and completely win a counterinsurgency. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
