Asymmetrical use of power is facile, mobile, uncensored and relatively spontaneous from its inception to completion of mission. Democracy is cumbersome, labor-intensive, deliberative and slow. freshrant.com
Nine years ago America’s multi-trillion dollar security apparatus was penetrated by 19 young men armed with knives and box cutters. Considering the nation’s investment in defense and its subsequent response, there has never been a more disproportionate example of attack and counter-attack in the history of warfare.
The Bush administration and others, post 9/11, laid out the "failure of imagination" argument positing that no one could have possibly predicted such a catastrophic event, in spite of the first Twin Tower attacks in the early 90′s up through multiple warnings ending just days before the al Qaeda attack.
Our national failure of imagination carries on to this day. We are stuck in a defense posture that includes treasury-draining traditional warfare. Ongoing TSA countermeasures for asymmetrical plots include the nixing of plastic water bottles and shoe removal-all a vapor trail to past threats.
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