Friday, August 06, 2004

D.C.'s Bunker Mentality

Today's Washington Post reports on the toll street closings, concrete barriers, checkpoints and sniffer dogs are having on the nation's capital:

"'We can create a neo-medieval society that will profoundly affect our economy, our politics and society itself,' said Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert and senior adviser at the Rand Corp., a nonprofit think tank. 'But we are bordering on creating an atmosphere of terror without the benefit of terrorists.'"