Who should pay to prevent terrorism, and how much should they pay?
To many Americans, people in other countries—including children and pregnant women—should pay with their limbs and lives so we can be safer.
And to many Americans it is an outrage to suggest that we should allow outlines of our body parts to be seen by security personnel.
Never mind that modesty is hardly a hallmark of women’s fashion in the U.S. And never mind that killing civilians and destroying their towns is hardly a way to make terrorism less appealing to whose who would practice it.
I’m with Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, who writes in a provocatively titled post:
Something about that doesn’t compute to me. . . . It just tells me that at some level we’re not really serious about this.