Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.
Let's put aside this argument over perfect protection and concentrate on getting a whole lot of protection for a whole lot of people.
Effective security measures do not come cheap.
The only thing that can protect me from someone coming from behind are the rules.
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking on another character.
People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.
