while you might be accepting of more thorough practice, the public is not
I suppose what gripes me here is the double standard. Politicians are perfectly happy to whip up a climate of fear in their rhetoric, but they aren't willing to *act* in an effectual manner, lest it inconvenience their constituency.
If we take as a given that full-scale surprise runs are not available, then we are debating having something over having nothing.
I really don't want to take that as a given. But I will (grudgingly) agree that something is better than nothing here.
Not much - the city took a whole lot of flack for the lite-brite bomb scares, never mind that it was an excellent exercise.
I think that's a serious oversimplification. The city government *took* flack largely about its attitude. They *generated* flack because the affair made them look silly. But since part of today's political climate is to never admit weakness in any form, including silliness, the cost was made out to be the primary issue and artificially inflated.
I agree with you that the system on the street worked well. It was the media and governmental responses that got silly.
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Date: 2007-03-22 07:51 pm (UTC)I suppose what gripes me here is the double standard. Politicians are perfectly happy to whip up a climate of fear in their rhetoric, but they aren't willing to *act* in an effectual manner, lest it inconvenience their constituency.
If we take as a given that full-scale surprise runs are not available, then we are debating having something over having nothing.
I really don't want to take that as a given. But I will (grudgingly) agree that something is better than nothing here.
Not much - the city took a whole lot of flack for the lite-brite bomb scares, never mind that it was an excellent exercise.
I think that's a serious oversimplification. The city government *took* flack largely about its attitude. They *generated* flack because the affair made them look silly. But since part of today's political climate is to never admit weakness in any form, including silliness, the cost was made out to be the primary issue and artificially inflated.
I agree with you that the system on the street worked well. It was the media and governmental responses that got silly.