Sunday, August 01, 2004

Code Orange
Here's a silly question: If you're a terrorist driving a truck filled with explosives, and you discover that your target has been placed on high alert, what's to keep you from simply finding a different target? In other words, by giving too much detail with these terror alerts, aren't we merely steering the danger towards some other, less protected group of potential victims?


---------------Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Call me a cynic, but these highly publicized terror warnings are designed more to give the illusion that the government is doing something. In other words, it's a classic example of Cover Your Ass.

Our security would be better served if these things were kept low-key. If the authorities have solid intelligence, and they have a decent idea of what to look for, they should be allowed to their jobs and catch the bad guys. But if too much publicity causes them to abort their mission and slip underground again, all we have gained is a postponement of an attack. Meanwhile, when once again nothing happens, the public is lulled into a false sense of security.


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