Was anyone else bothered that the New York Times would publish Lawrence Wein's op-ed "A Threat in Every Port?" A combination of fear mongering and terror inspiration, Wein's piece includes sentences like "As the accompanying chart illustrates, there are a dizzying number of paths that terrorists could use to transport a foreign-built weapon to an American target city — 132 variations, in fact, taking into consideration all four likely modes of transport: commercial airplane, cargo airplane, container ship and cruise ship."
When the Times is repeating the government claims of a threat to "national security" every time it does not want to release documents, what is the point of printing a half page description of the various ways the the U.S. is incredibly weak and vulnerable. He mentions by name the Ambassador Bridge, one hour from my house, as a possible conduit for weapons. Just a note that if there is another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, remember that the Times published a flow chart on how to do it.
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