Peter Welch actually said...

When things like a cooling tower fall down and the reaction on the part of the company that runs it is that it's not really a big deal, that...

if something can go wrong, even when we think it won't, it probably at some point will go wrong and that's what we saw in Japan.

when we have a nuclear power plant that the cooling tower collapses and we're told not to worry about it, that's hard to be comfortable.

If it were as easy as writing a check and having the police force in Iraq and Afghanistan be established, it would be no problem.