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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
The Superbowl closed downtown Detroit for 3 days last year, including the corporate headquarters of Ford.
For a football game. That the President wasn't going to attend.
The point is that things happen and sometimes you're inconvienced. Sorry about that, but in the post-9/11 world security is taken very seriously by most world leaders. I expect that if the Pope were to visit again, security would be a little tighter, as would a visit by any other major world leader.
It sounds like the Secret Service may have had a credible threat against the President. They don't make the kind of effort you've described lightly.
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Detroit wasn't closed down by Italian police, however.
Are you not catching that he is emphasizing the foreign police element?
Or does it not matter to you? Or...?
Because it sounds from your post that it wouldn't matter to you who is doing the policing, whereas for him it's a different context when one's own police are doing the policing. Yet, when it's a foreign police force, it feels like one's sovereignty is being usurped. Very frustrating.
On top of that, "a post-9/11 world" is a US construct. The rest of the developed world has already been acutely aware of modern terrorism for decades. We've been slow to the table, but certainly latin america and the Pope aren't acting all differently now that "9/11" happened. That point seems really unaware of things that have been happening in and around those countries for a very long time?