No defense can be absolute, but no building defenses is absolute folly.
Defenses, from castles to armor to security checkpoints, don't prevent attacks or even successful attacks. What they do is increase the cost to the enemy of making a successful attack, in time, planning, people, material, cash, training, and all other manners.
Relating to terrorism, when increase our national defenses within our borders, we make it harder for terrorists to succeed. If determined, they still have ways, but these ways take more planning, more cunning, more training, more financial support, more transactions, more coordination, etc. All of these are things that increase the chances that our intelligence folks will be able to pick up on and track plans prior to execution and give our military and law enforcement agents more substantial ways to attack these organizations.
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"Don't tell me we're so blind we cannot see that this is my land! I can't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
And this is your land, you can't close your eyes to this hypocracy.
Yes this is my land, I won't pretend that it's nothing to do with me.
'Cause this is our land, we can't close our eyes to the things we don't wanna see."
- DTH
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