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December 1, 2010
Air Security: Not even past step one
There are three stages to coping with a threat. First you have to recognize the threat. Second, you have to formulate a plan for dealing with the threat. Third, you have to implement the plan.So far we haven't even made to the first stage. We haven't recognized the threat. At the airline security level, we insist that the threat is completely random. Anyone at all could be a terrorist. There's no specific ideology or countries that are sources of terrorism. Instead terrorism is like some sort of disease. Anyone at all could be a carrier. And so we have to watch out for everyone. All the time. And like those hunters, we're either on alert all the time or we're completely apathetic. We're either security manic or security depressive. We go from letting everyone pass to strip searching everybody. There's no rational approach to danger, because we don't have a rational plan. We just go from 0 to 60 every time there's a new threat. -- Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield
Posted by Vanderleun at December 1, 2010 12:09 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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OODA Loops for breakfast, OODA Loops for Lunch, OODA Loops for DINNER, and if you get a hankerin' at midnight, It should be OODA Loops.
Posted by: Jewel at December 1, 2010 12:57 PM
Well, luckily, the people more inept than the halfwit patsies are the Mohameds the halfwits are stinging.
Posted by: Jewel at December 2, 2010 1:32 AM