Dodge City: Preparing for Terror Not Just a Blue State Problem

What would you do if a bomb went off at your high school? Dodge City High School found out the answer to that question when it conducted its community-wide crisis exercise Tuesday afternoon...In cooperation with the Dodge City Police Department, the Dodge City and Ford County Fire Departments, the Ford County sheriff, Ford County EMS and Western Plains Medical Complex, school officials simulated what would happen should a bomb go off on school property....Preparing For the Worst, Dodge City Daily Globe, 10/25/2006

This seems certain to arouse laughter in New York and the District of Columbia, but why? The worst terror attack on the United States before 9/11 was in Oklahoma City. Who would have believed that before 1995? More people died in that office building in downtown Oklahoma City that at the Pentagon on 9/11. Was it because the terrorists there weren't Arabs that MSM thinks it silly to worry about, and give money to prevent, terror attacks in the heartland? Actually, not a few people think that there was a connection between McVeigh and the Middle East, at least as a patsy, but this is not the place to argue a point that's played out for a decade elsewhere. The point is that bombings are still the weapon of choice of terrorists, whether individual psychopaths, or al Qaeda. The better choice is to prepare, not carry on as if only certain people were important enough to be targets.

Luther