<story><title>Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/people-injured-after-explosion-at-brussels-airport-police-say-1458632527</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmichulke</author><text>As sad as it is, I think the responses will be:&lt;p&gt;- we need more surveillance rights and money for the secret services&lt;p&gt;- we need more police and higher spending&lt;p&gt;- and possibly bomb some country (Syria is en vogue)&lt;p&gt;What won&amp;#x27;t be said is:&lt;p&gt;- How come this happens &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt; without anyone having seen it coming?&lt;p&gt;- What does it say about the success of the Western anti-terror foreign policy adopted ~2001?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BFatts</author><text>For every attack that they &amp;quot;didn&amp;#x27;t see coming&amp;quot; there are, most likely, plenty of attacks that they &amp;quot;did see coming&amp;quot; and stopped. Even more likely is that we don&amp;#x27;t hear about these stopped attacks because they aren&amp;#x27;t sexy news. Or, when attacks ARE stopped, and it&amp;#x27;s published, people question whether it&amp;#x27;s just blustering by the government to justify their jobs.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not like you can say &amp;quot;yeah, we saw that coming and let it happen.&amp;quot; Because THAT, sure as hell, will not fly with the people. And &amp;quot;yeah, we saw it coming and stopped it&amp;quot; is questioned as just posturing. When people say &amp;quot;scanning individuals in airports makes us no safer,&amp;quot; what are they comparing it to?&lt;p&gt;Is it that they doubt the effectiveness because people are still getting killed by terrorists in planes? No. It&amp;#x27;s because there are no attacks, so they have no data to say &amp;quot;yeah... it&amp;#x27;s been effective.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Brussels Rocked by Terrorist Attacks</title><url>http://www.wsj.com/articles/people-injured-after-explosion-at-brussels-airport-police-say-1458632527</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dmichulke</author><text>As sad as it is, I think the responses will be:&lt;p&gt;- we need more surveillance rights and money for the secret services&lt;p&gt;- we need more police and higher spending&lt;p&gt;- and possibly bomb some country (Syria is en vogue)&lt;p&gt;What won&amp;#x27;t be said is:&lt;p&gt;- How come this happens &lt;i&gt;again&lt;/i&gt; without anyone having seen it coming?&lt;p&gt;- What does it say about the success of the Western anti-terror foreign policy adopted ~2001?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acjohnson55</author><text>One thing I haven&amp;#x27;t heard is &amp;quot;we didn&amp;#x27;t see it coming&amp;quot;. Quite the opposite. Everybody&amp;#x27;s been bracing for this ever since Paris.&lt;p&gt;But I agree that this is a problem we can&amp;#x27;t bomb our way out of.</text></comment>