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Playing With Numbers

Terrorists and asteroids: John Mueller's overblown vision. Inconveniencing Al Gore. Changing the Gold Channel. Gays and Greek. Plus much more.
p> ODDS MAN OUT br> Re: Philip Klein's Don't Look Back : /p> p>John Mueller, author of Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them , is not just any professor at Ohio State. He holds the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center. If you hear reports of earth tremors in the Central Ohio area, don't be concerned about impending earthquakes. It's just Woody rolling over in his grave at Union Cemetery. br> -- Jay Hoster br> Columbus, Ohio /p> p> Mr. Mueller uses a very inappropriate analogy when he compares terrorist attacks to asteroid "attacks." The fact that we don't seek out and destroy every asteroid we can find after one hits us doesn't embolden asteroids to redirect themselves to pummel the Earth. On the other hand, as bin Laden noted in his 1996 fatwa, not responding does embolden terrorists. By not responding the probabilities change, for the worse. They will continue doing so until we respond with the appropriate response (overwhelming force, in my opinion.) br> --
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