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Published: Sep 16, 2005 01:41 PM
Tue - March 15, 2005
Show And Tell
America once advised soldiers
that "Loose Lips Sink Ships," but really, who needs ships
anyway?
If
you were a government official in a country at war and knew that enemy forces
might strike your nation at any time, would
you:
a) quietly prepare for that eventuality or
b) issue a public report detailing more than 20 of the the potentially most devastating attacks that the enemy could employ, along with a helpful estimate of casualties?
If you were a journalist who lived in a city that the enemy had targeted previously and you obtained a copy of this report, would you:
a) suppress it in the interest of national security or
b) publish its contents on the front page of a major daily newspaper?
The answer to both is b—which proves that even though blowing up a chlorine tank could kill 17,500 people and injure more than 100,000, common sense remains the first and greatest casualty in the War on Terror.
a) quietly prepare for that eventuality or
b) issue a public report detailing more than 20 of the the potentially most devastating attacks that the enemy could employ, along with a helpful estimate of casualties?
If you were a journalist who lived in a city that the enemy had targeted previously and you obtained a copy of this report, would you:
a) suppress it in the interest of national security or
b) publish its contents on the front page of a major daily newspaper?
The answer to both is b—which proves that even though blowing up a chlorine tank could kill 17,500 people and injure more than 100,000, common sense remains the first and greatest casualty in the War on Terror.