Thursday, May 11, 2006
Media deliberately misunderstands trade-offs again:
"Resourcing blamed over July bombs
A lack of resources prevented security services from intercepting the 7 July London bombers, a report has claimed."
Well of course it could have been prevented with more resources, any one thing could have been. If we could afford a pro-Western observer to monitor every muslim then there would be no terrorism by muslims - anyone who looked a bit shifty would be wrestled to the ground immediately. Similarly, if all children had a vetted bodyguard, there'd be no child abductions. But we can't have everything: among other things we've got a National Lottery to run.
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"Resourcing blamed over July bombs
A lack of resources prevented security services from intercepting the 7 July London bombers, a report has claimed."
Well of course it could have been prevented with more resources, any one thing could have been. If we could afford a pro-Western observer to monitor every muslim then there would be no terrorism by muslims - anyone who looked a bit shifty would be wrestled to the ground immediately. Similarly, if all children had a vetted bodyguard, there'd be no child abductions. But we can't have everything: among other things we've got a National Lottery to run.
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