At 18:25 16/08/2006, sastry wrote:
India is taking a "chalta hai"/"adjusht maadi" attitude to terror and the public pays for that.
the public has paid quite a high price for the "liquid bomb" threat. the actual risks of a liquid bomb on a plane have not increased; the chemistry has been known for decades and was even the basis for another failed terror plot in 1995. an overreaction, security as theatre, may make some people (you?) feel safer, but does not in fact reduce risks significantly, and this non-reduction comes at a tremendous cost - to airlines, businesses and society in general.
this cost is probably much higher than the damage the small liquid bomb could have actually achieved.
another way of looking at india's "chalta hai" attitude is that it is more realistic - the south african cricket team fled sri lanka and india didn't, presumably because the indians perceive the risks differently.
-rishab
