http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14601485/print/1/displaymode/1098/ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL
... Airing Sunday, Sept. 10, at 8 p.m. EDT, it begins with a 90-minute documentary, "The Price of Security," in which (Ted) Koppel interviews current and former administration members as well as military and security experts to examine challenges still facing the government in its war on terrorism.
(90-minute "town meeting" follows, for total of 3-hour program)
... One side of the largely sidetracked debate holds that America would be altered forever by another 9/11-scale attack, and that no measures are too drastic to prevent a terrorist's use against the U.S. of a weapon of mass destruction. This fear has largely driven post-9/11 policy — "the conviction of the president and his top aides that they are up against this existential threat, and that they have to avoid it at all costs," Koppel told The Associated Press recently.
On the other side, he says, are those who argue "that America is great because it hews to a set of standards and laws that theoretically, at least, apply equally to everyone. And that once you start to play around with that system, you undermine the very thing that makes us what we are."
It could be a case of destroying America in order to save it, that argument might hold — "and in the long run," Koppel adds, "more damaging to America than even another terrorist attack."
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