I don't know either. There are no good apples to replace those we would have thrown out. And at least Saddam keeps Iran in check. A weak Iraq means Iran controls the Gulf!
As to abridging our civil liberties, I wouldn't have it. I don't mind waiting an extra two hours at the airport, nor do I mind roaming wiretaps (they still have to get a court order to get the tap to begin with.) But I don't want to see effective suspension of habeus corpus because some nut wants to kill us all. Let's try reviewing entry visas first, eh? We have to submit to a background check to buy a firearm in the United States, but we don't do jack to check up on those entering the country, to see if maybe they would want to blow up a building or two. Now that is silly.
I don't know how it is in Italy (you're still in Italy, aren't you?). But I think some common sense precautions would go a long way. Many of these people, as we are seeing with investigations in the US and Europe, are right under our noses and found easily enough - if our law enforcement and intelligence agencies get off their asses. This will be the largest global sting operation ever mounted, and we will (with a bit of Delta Force action if necessary) break the back of the terrorist network.
Derek |
