Friday, July 8, 2005

Fear and Terrorism I hand it to the Brits and to their no nonsense, let's-get-on-with-life reaction to the latest attacks. I have just finished reading Bruce Schneier's timely book Beyond Fear. The following is from his blog yesterday. I would also like to urge everyone not to get wrapped up in the particulars of the terrorist tactics. We need to resist the urge to react against the particulars of this particular terrorist plot, and to keep focused on the terrorists' goals. Spending billions to defend our trains and busses at the expense of other counterterrorist measures makes no sense. Terrorists are out to cause terror, and they don't care if they bomb trains, busses, shopping malls, theaters, stadiums, schools, markets, restaurants, discos, or any other collection of 100 people in a small space. There are simply too many targets to defend, and we need to think smarter than protecting the particular targets the terrorists attacked last week. Smart counterterrorism focuses on the terrorists and their funding -- stopping plots regardless of their targets -- and emergency response that limits their damage. 8:21:03 PM    comment []

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