Of course, a tragedy --- and an example...
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This is, of course, terrible.
But it is one more example of how how terrorism, of one sort or another, is just about impossible to stop.
When I worked at LBJ's White House I came to know some now-lengendary Secret Service agents --- Rufus Youngblood, Clint Hill among others. They told me that if a madman is willing to give up his life, there is not a whole lot they can do.
Those who now say, we can not prevail in Iraq unless are out of there in a year, do not understand how the world works.
It took the Brits about 10 years to pacify Malaya. It is now the mostly-free nation of Malasia.
It can be done, sometimes.
Americans want quick answers and quick solutions. It doesn't always work that way.
Ben
This is, of course, terrible.
But it is one more example of how how terrorism, of one sort or another, is just about impossible to stop.
When I worked at LBJ's White House I came to know some now-lengendary Secret Service agents --- Rufus Youngblood, Clint Hill among others. They told me that if a madman is willing to give up his life, there is not a whole lot they can do.
Those who now say, we can not prevail in Iraq unless are out of there in a year, do not understand how the world works.
It took the Brits about 10 years to pacify Malaya. It is now the mostly-free nation of Malasia.
It can be done, sometimes.
Americans want quick answers and quick solutions. It doesn't always work that way.
Ben
posted by Ben Wattenberg at 11:05 AM
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