[yonif]

Benny Elon:

The Tourism Minister Benny Elon (National Union) Said in response to the terror attack "Israel must destroy, kill, and lose the murderers" from the terror organizations. To his words, Israel should not be dealing "with detaching Israelis from their homes" because it is a "prize to terror"

[dennisw]

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/marshall.html



Does new technology ultimately make us more or less vulnerable?

A friend of mine, Yale economist Martin Shubik, says an important way to think about the world is to draw a curve of the number of people 10 determined men can kill before they are put down themselves, and how that has varied over time. His claim is that it wasn't very many for a long time, and now it's going up. In that sense, it's not just the US. All the world is getting less safe.