see, the thing about the terror alert level chart (or whatever u call it) is it just shows you (& the world!) these guys ain't got the know-how to win a war.
it takes attention to detail to defend a homeland, and they don't even have the details of their colors right.
what's wrong with'em? 2 things: number and order. (sorry if you think i'm stating the obvious, but it needs saying.)
let's deal with sequence first (because i've got a feeling the number of colors is gonna take a whole lotta words):
simply put, the sequence should follow the spectrum. these guys wanted red and green at opposite ends like traffic signals and traditional military alert conditions, but they seem clueless how they got that way—namely, the spectrum. and in the spectrum, blue is not found anywhere between green and yellow. if you want to use those same 5 colors and have red at the top, blue should, in fact, be at the bottom. (but i suppose i shouldn't be surprised, given the scientific ignorance of so many of their crowd.)
now, why is 5 colors/levels wrong? because the lowest it ever gets is the 3rd level, so why have 2 below it? maybe it makes sense to have one unused level at the bottom to indicate we're never at "condition green" these days because in a war on terror we always have to be more on guard than in normal times. but 2 unused levels makes no more sense than going to war against a country that never attacked us but will become a recruiting poster child and on-the-job training ground for terrorists as a result of the invasion and occupation.
just get rid of the blue level, but keep the name "guarded" and get rid of "elevated," which means the same thing as "high," so why have both?
all i want is a little common sense for a change.
dream on....
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