i am not sure how you argue that india underreacts to terror, while the
west overreacts.
indian airports have had universal pat-down screening, no
batteries-on-board, identify-your-bag and other "overreacting" rules for
air passengers for decades, while the west had barely any security at all.
india has had laws on the books that invade privacy and violate human
rights in the name of preventing terror for far longer than the US or UK -
and these have been abused far more, too.
-rishab
At 14:43 16/08/2006, sastry wrote:
The view that the airline bomb threat is false is a luxury that the US and UK
citizens can afford given that their security agencies have been largely
successful in thwarting serious terror at the cost of overreacting. This is
not a luxury that Indian citizens can afford - given that terror killings
remain a daily occurence in a cronically underreacting India.
