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> A $400 drone can now take out a $2B piece of equipment. That waters the mouth of any adversary. Aren’t you actually arguing for these kind of enhanced vetti
by kcplate 1y ago
> A $400 drone can now take out a $2B piece of equipment. That waters the mouth of any adversary.
Aren’t you actually arguing for these kind of enhanced vetting measures with this realization?
If anti-US sentiment is high and if the barrier to sabotaging a $2B system is a meager $400…why wouldn’t you do everything you could to prevent people who might be inclined, supportive, or even publicly indifferent to doing your country harm from entering with your blessing?
- lantry 1y agoThese "enhanced" vetting measures don't actually provide any protection against these kinds of attacks. All they do is increase the anti-US sentiment, which increases the number of people interested in attacking us.
- kcplate 1y agoSure, it may increase anti-us sentiment, but I don’t think you can confidently say that “enhanced vetting measures don’t actually provide any protection” because there is simply no way to know or measure what didn’t happen if you didn’t have foreknowledge of the planned attack that you foiled by your vetting. My attitude is, if you try to get in to the US you must want to be here for some reason. If that reason is to create some form of chaos, I don’t give a shit if you are made more irritated by the process. If your reason is peaceful and this discourages you…I’m sorry, it’s unfortunate, but we have folks that wish us harm and we want to protect everyone best we can…including you, Traveler. If just being inconvenienced makes you want to harm us, well you are exactly the type of person that should probably be vetted out—and hopefully you were.