Just finished listening to an NPR interview with yet another Center for Strategic Studies expert on terrorism, Michelle Flornoy (sic) "This will forcre us Americans to rethink civil liberties. All the worst concerns about terrorism...now it has been proven to happen. We ill need to think about whether we need to take additional secruity steps to safeguard ourselves against this type of threat. Americans have a very open society, it's part of our national character. We tend to embrace our civil liberties and protect them fiercly. But I think there are certain tradeoffs between those liberties and the kind of security we might want to heighten. Those trade offs are gonna be on the agenda in the future" NPR Interviewer: But we have precautions already for hijackings and that is what we have today apparently, a hijacking. Flornoy (sic):Yes, I think in the case of the Pentagon, one of the challenges is that it is so closely situated near national airports, so literally hundreds or thousands of flights fly near or over the Pentagaon on a daily basis. I think that situatioon will be reevaluated in the future, whether we need to cordon off that air space.... Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822
