“As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t help but reflect on how China and America have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics; we’ve been preparing for Al Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones.” Thomas Friedman column: “A Biblical Seven Years” NYT, August 26, 2008
Bang-for-the-Buck Facts: 1) We buy ourselves many levels of long term security by investing in essential infrastructure. 2) There are limits to how secure from terrorism we can make ourselves. Pbea
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