{"id":1048,"date":"2008-12-02T16:47:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T22:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2008-12-02T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T22:47:27","slug":"mumbai-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/lessons_from_mu.html\">A great post<\/a> on what we can learn from the Mumbai attacks.  Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there&#8217;s any lesson in these attacks, it&#8217;s not to focus too much on the specifics of the attacks. Of course, that&#8217;s not the way we&#8217;re programmed to think. We respond to stories, not analysis. I don&#8217;t mean to be unsympathetic; this tendency is human and these deaths are really tragic. But 18 armed people intent on killing lots of innocents will be able to do just that, and last-line-of-defense countermeasures won&#8217;t be able to stop them. Intelligence, investigation, and emergency response. We have to find and stop the terrorists before they attack, and deal with the aftermath of the attacks we don&#8217;t stop. There really is no other way, and I hope that we don&#8217;t let the tragedy lead us into unwise decisions about how to deal with terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We need to stop reacting and start acting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great post on what we can learn from the Mumbai attacks. Money quote: If there&#8217;s any lesson in these attacks, it&#8217;s not to focus too much on the specifics of the attacks. Of course, that&#8217;s not the way we&#8217;re programmed to think. We respond to stories, not analysis. I don&#8217;t mean to be unsympathetic; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mumbai Lessons<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-gU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}