Close the Washington Monument!

Related to the Tempest in a teapot nature of news, terrorism, and fear that I talked about yesterday is this modest proposal: Instead of attempting to find a better way of protecting the Washington Monument from terrorists, let's just shut it down! A quote:

"The grand reopening of the Washington Monument will not occur when we've won the war on terror, because that will never happen. It won't even occur when we've defeated al Qaeda. Militant Islamic terrorism has fractured into small, elusive groups. We can reopen the Washington Monument when we've defeated our fears, when we've come to accept that placing safety above all other virtues cedes too much power to government and that liberty is worth the risks, and that the price of freedom is accepting the possibility of crime."