Allowing people to not be in padded cells for their entire lives makes people less safe too. So does letting them eat in restaurants or driving cars or engaging in trade. Notwithstanding these risks, we don’t require people to be in padded cells and we let them eat out, drive, and all sorts of other things. Even though it makes the whole world less safe, Mr. Rumsfeld.
Isn't that exactly what Rumsfeld is saying? "Let them eat out, drive, all sorts of other things"...leaving the police (or whoever) to intervene when necessary, to protect others?
A strict policy of non-intervention leaves the rest of the world to the thugs -- thus becoming a world that is most assuredly not in our best national interest.