This is just a PR (Iran will kill us if the City gets it way!!!) ploy by the Army to prevent urban development of the river waterfront.
"City leaders have been fighting the Army's plan to add a buffer zone of about 250 feet to 500 feet from the shore of the Washington Channel, which would limit access to as much as half the width of the busy waterway running parallel to the Potomac River."
I agree, in that the restriction, to prohibit boats from 'anchoring, mooring, or loitering' in the zone, would not prevent a Cole bombing, but would prevent peasants from disrupting General Martin's view of the river.
Since that is a reasonable restriction, the big problem would be the delimiting buoys that cut the channel in half, restricting commerce in the very busy waterway.
Not buying it.
This is just a PR (Iran will kill us if the City gets it way!!!) ploy by the Army to prevent urban development of the river waterfront.
"City leaders have been fighting the Army's plan to add a buffer zone of about 250 feet to 500 feet from the shore of the Washington Channel, which would limit access to as much as half the width of the busy waterway running parallel to the Potomac River."
I agree, in that the restriction, to prohibit boats from 'anchoring, mooring, or loitering' in the zone, would not prevent a Cole bombing, but would prevent peasants from disrupting General Martin's view of the river.
Since that is a reasonable restriction, the big problem would be the delimiting buoys that cut the channel in half, restricting commerce in the very busy waterway.