Half an hour outside of Las Vegas sits Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel from the 1930s. It was built by Warren Bechtel, the founder of the Bechtel Corp., headquartered in San Francisco.
The Dam was on al-Qaeda's target list, so after 9/11, the federal government decided to build a bridge 1,000 feet high over the dam to reduce its vulnerability to attacks, such as by truck bombs.
Scheduled to be completed next year, the construction project rivals the dam in its complexity and grand scale.
I don't recall seeing a more impressive bridge at the partway-built stage anywhere before.
If Osama bin-Laden accomplished nothing else by his terror attacks, he has cost the U.S. taxpayer a frightful amount of money trying to secure our borders and our most vulnerable national assets.
A visit to the dam during the current recession is a sobering reminder of that sad fact.
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1 comment:
it is sad when the negative actions of a few cost the majority to pay a high price. Isn't it so, even in areas such as corruption? When a few people are corrupt...many other people suffer.
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