[lbo-talk] General Odom (Ret.) on Iraq

[Jordan Hayes]

>> Useful first steps would be to remove the barriers in
>> front of the White House and the Capitol,
>
> And why not those in front of the Time Warner Center in
> NYC, too?  There must be some corporate narcissism at
> work - are you iconic enough to be the target of a car bomb?

My understnading is that part of this comes from the fact that many
government installations have had barriers put in which MAKES EVERYONE
ELSE AN EASIER TARGET (this is the supposition, I'm not sure I agree).
There was quite a bit of liability protection put in place after 9/11,
but it's widely believed to be a one-time deal.  So building owners are
worried that, if the govt. building down the block sets up a barrier and
they don't, are they being negligent?  Will they be taken to the
cleaners later for not "getting the hint" ...?

So it's sort of a "we gotta do it because everyone else is doing it"
scenario.

/jordan