Preparing Infrastructure for the 'Big One'

In this series, the Iconoclast has been exploring terrorism and its potential targets, as well as short-term and long-range methods of addressing the risk. In this final part of the series, he continues to seek ways to combat terrorist exposures.

With a schoolyard bully, a kid can either give up and lose his self esteem, or he can respond and get into a fight, maybe getting his own teeth knocked out. Chances are, in today’s politically correct society, it is the bullied kid who will be hauled to the principal’s office, scolded, lectured, and kicked out of school for a few days, while the bully runs off to hide, crying foul. As George C. Scott says in the opening lines to Patton, every red-blooded American loves a good fight.