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\u201cIf you do what you\u2019ve always done, you\u2019ll get what you\u2019ve always gotten.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013Tony Robbins<\/p>\n

That applies to our cycling, our careers\u2026 and our foreign policy.<\/p>\n

Pro Cycling is Vulnerable<\/h2>\n

It is a fact. As Michael Rogers points out at the story below, road cycling is extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. The events are high profile, packed with spectators, and very easy to gain access to. This has been a concern of mine for a long time. In my opinion there\u2019s very little you can do to thwart an attack.<\/p>\n

Nor do I think that such preventive measures are the best response, and nor should they be the business of race officials.<\/p>\n

The proper and lasting solution is a principled foreign policy, based not on guilt and submission to foreign powers and entities, but on American self-preservation and the defense of our individual rights.<\/p>\n

There is an excellent book that reveals our current irrational policy (under Republicans and Democrats), and prescribes the strategy we need to adopt to win the war against Islamic totalitarianism<\/a>. There, I said it\u2026 Islamic<\/em> terrorism.<\/p>\n

Michael Rogers fears cycling’s accessibility could leave it open to terrorist attack<\/a><\/p>\n

And it’s not just a theoretical threat, because a massacre on a high profile cycling event was already planned (and luckily averted), in Belgium earlier this year:<\/p>\n

Boston-Style Plot to Bomb Bike Race<\/a><\/p>\n

Afghan Women’s Cycling Team<\/h2>\n

On a positive note, a story<\/a> I covered earlier this year gets major attention from National Geographic. These women are heroes, intellectually independent and enormously courageous. It’s good to see them getting recognition and exposure.<\/p>\n

If you think the road rage is bad around where you live, you should read about the imbeciles these women have to put up with. But still they ride.<\/p>\n

Afghan Women\u2019s Cycling Team In National Geographic\u2019s Adventurers Of 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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