Terrorists and asteroids: John Mueller's overblown vision. Inconveniencing Al Gore. Changing the Gold Channel. Gays and Greek. Plus much more.
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ODDS MAN OUT
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Re: Philip Klein's
Don't Look
Back
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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.
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Jay Hoster
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Columbus, Ohio
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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.)
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