"Not all commentators share those views, however. Author and military observer Gwynne Dyer said the Olympics will be a great public-relations boost for the armed forces. “Of course they'll have the numbers,” he said. “It will be the guys who aren't in Afghanistan, and they're going to be out there looking pretty, on the streets … for traffic control, crowd control. Public exposure, you know? There's no downside.” The real anti-terrorism work will be done by police and security professionals, Mr. Dyer said."
That man is an idiot. The numbers simply don't exist. Hopefully the people will see just how strained the military is and contibute to it, either by joining up or paying for more kit.
As far as police and security proffesionals go, it isn't in the police mandate to handle terrorists or would-be terrorists as we would, and we are the security proffesionals, we've been doing it fairly well since 2002.
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