Good Point
Walker writes, subbing for A Sullivan, that we should change our way of life in response to terrorism. Why do we concentrate so many of our resources in big cities? Good question. Let's diversify our portfolio. Many of us would be much happier paying less rent and having more space, I'm sure.
With the internet, telecommuting is a viable option for employees, and hence, the need for proximity is less, for certain types of jobs.
LA is an interesting example of this. I know LA is a terrorist target, but I'm always confused, what the fuck are they going to attack? Disneyland. That won't affect anything. LAX airport? Huh? What do they mean, blow up the airport? The airport is HUGE. Like, one terminal or something. You can't car bomb an entire airport. They could take out the 10 freeway, I suppose. Or maybe Dodger Stadium, or Westwood. I dunno, I just don't see how any of it would be that destructive...other than an a-bomb, of course.
On a similar note, a look at Al Queda's 20 year plan. The issue the anti-war left has never grabbled with is how not transforming the middle east will lead to greater consolidation of power for Al Queda and the Islamicist movement. In this scenario a showdown between the West and the Islamicists is inevitable - the question is whether we want to wait until they are powerful or fight them now, when they have relatively few resources at their disposal.
4 comments:
Lots more people die each year of car accidents then terrorist attacks, why don't we stop driving cars? Or make them 200% safer? Or make harder driving tests?
I'm not sure whether to take this comment seriously.
Is the suggestion that Islamic fascism is something we should shrug our shoulders over and say, "Eh."
I think that's probably a bad idea.
No, don't take it seriously. It was sarcasm. But the point is, in terms of what's doing damage to america at the moment, there are many other things, killing many more americans, than terroists. I'm not saying do nothing. But, tellingt people to start working at home because of terrorists seems a bit ridiculous to me.
why is this conflict inevitable? because a few crazies on that side destroyed the WTC? because a few (much more powerful) crazies on this side launched a wildly expensive war to keep the military-industrial complex in business for the next 20 years?
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