provo provoke, hit the south koreans hard. they re hosting the olympics. scare them from seoul. ruin the olympics from this and the world. because they re being so belicose. what do you think? it s a logical positioning how easy it would be for them to terrorize those games. my response would be that that has to be looked at as a soft target and the security needs to be bolstered aggressively enough to be able to respond with enough force. what i mean by that, if there s a terror attack or some kind of attack targeted at south korea at though games, that terrorist needs to be down quickly. the message that that will send
the further we get out, the terrorist needs to go right outside that area in these are very difficult to do. right here at home, we talked about charlottesville, we saw the car running that just occurred at a protest. this extremism has grown in many different folds across the world and sometimes what we overlook is that these echo chambers where people talk to each other and begin to amp each other up on their individual narrow conference, whether they re religious, on the left, the right, they began to isolate themselves from the larger society and begin to believe that their individual concern is that they can treat others as less than human.
long, but it felt like i was in slow motion trying to get away from it. very surreal. just one of the eyewitnesses there, the asia pacific foundation joins me now in london. what is shocking is that, you know, the lack of shock really about what happened here. this is exactly the sort of attack the intelligence agencies were talking about and preparing for. very much so. i m afraid they were warning us. they were concerned that the christmas period would result in a spate of plots. there was heightened activity, electronic chatter. i guess it still is disturbing because of the fact when you see a vehicle being turned into a lethal weapon, mowing people down, everyone brings the similarity to the nice attacks on the 14th of july of this year. but there have been a number of other plots involving vehicles which thankfully the authorities have disrupted, but unfortunately they have to be lucky all the time, the terrorist needs to be lucky once, and when it happens it is