I heard a radio show on NPR yesterday about "The Cheney Doctrine", which apparently is "if there is a 1% chance of intelligence on terror, then we must take action." I have 2 things to say about this:
1. It depends a lot on how good their intelligence is (and I have no real knowledge of how good their intelligence is, but news reports over the past few years suggest it is not so good), and how many reports of terror activity they get.
2. It depends a lot on what action they take. Bombing a house is different from sending in someone to check it out and perhaps try to arrest someone.
Depending on these two things, this approach could either make us safer, or make us a lot less safe.
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