{"id":105,"date":"2002-09-25T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-25T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=105"},"modified":"2002-09-25T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-25T17:44:00","slug":"failsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Failsafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just sent the following letter to the <cite>Boston Globe<\/cite><br \/>\nafter reading Elaine Scarry&#8217;s excellent piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/265\/focus\/Failsafe+.shtml\">Failsafe!<\/a>:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Congratulations on having the bravery to publish Elaine<br \/>\nScarry&#8217;s &#8220;Failsafe&#8221;.  She is right to point out that distributed<br \/>\nthreats require distributed countermeasures. She is right to point out<br \/>\nthat centralized defense of the U.S. massively failed us.  She is<br \/>\nright to point out that the founders of the U.S. envisioned citizens,<br \/>\nnot standing armies, as the backbone of the nation&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n<p>After all that argument and build-up, it is only unfortunate<br \/>\nthat she stopped short of the logical conclusion: that to prevent<br \/>\nfuture hijackings, the logical course is to arm the passengers. <\/p>\n<p>The extension to other situations involving crime, terrorism, and<br \/>\npolitics (insofar as the three are distinguishable at all) is left<br \/>\nas an exercise for the reader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enetation.co.uk\/comments.php?user=esr&amp;commentid=82085198\">Blogspot comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just sent the following letter to the Boston Globe after reading Elaine Scarry&#8217;s excellent piece Failsafe!: Congratulations on having the bravery to publish Elaine Scarry&#8217;s &#8220;Failsafe&#8221;. She is right to point out that distributed threats require distributed countermeasures. She is right to point out that centralized defense of the U.S. massively failed us. She&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=105\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Failsafe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}