Judd Gregg: “I want to review this issue because it is important in the context of London to understand our purpose and how we are…”

“I want to review this issue because it is important in the context of London to understand our purpose and how we are proceeding from a policy standpoint to try to address terrorism. To begin with, we all know and understand and are all concerned about the threat to public transportation, specifically mass transportation, in our Nation and in any western culture because of what has happened in Madrid and in London and because the people who have decided to pursue this heinous approach of killing innocent individuals see this opportunity as a soft target, an easy way to kill indiscriminately. It is hard for western cultures to understand that people would do that. Unfortunately, that is what our enemies do. We as a nation must decide how we can best address protecting ourselves. It is important not to take the attitude that if we just throw money at this, we will solve the problem. That doesn't work. What we need to do is address the risk, the threat, and determine what is the best way to respond to that risk and that threat. When we were attacked on 9/11, we recognized as a nation that the individuals who seek to harm us are willing to take what we would consider everyday modes of transportation and use those modes of transportation as a weapon against us. Those airplanes were used as missiles. So as a nation, we decided we were not going to allow that to happen.…”