Did the U.S. Response to the Marathon Bombings Help or Harm Security?

[摘要] At a recent Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Boston bombings, a Massachusetts state official praised the decisiveness of the response. As citizens of a U.S. ally that was the target of more than 100 terror attacks between 2000 and 2005, we viewed the event somewhat differently. While your actions affirmed that the U.S. will go to extraordinary lengths to protect the security of its citizens, the sheer scale of the response may have done more harm than good.

[学科分类] 卫生学

[关键词] homeland security;bombings;terrorism;media coverage;security measures