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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Condor who wrote (184)	9/17/2001 7:57:35 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think if Chretien does not step up to the challenge he will not be remembered well in history, at least not Canadian history. I do agree with you -- an ounce of prevention -- on policing immigration. I am sure there is room for increased vigilance without turning away legitimate needs. What, I wonder, are we as a society willing to give up in order to pay for all of this? Our tax rebate? Funding of other programs? Which ones? And what freedoms? One thing for sure, I hope all funding for mimes is cut immediately. ;) Re Powell, he seems competent and a better fit for the situation than Ms. Albright might have been. I hope they can come up with good and lasting solutions. EDIT / PS: I know we are not at Ground Zero, but I feel as if we are every bit as involved. Escalation / improper handling of the situation and future issues could easily impact us every bit as much. We all have a big stake in the short and long term approaches that get taken.

To: Condor who wrote (184)	9/17/2001 11:19:24 PM
From: SirRealist	Respond to of 281500

Heck, if Powell wasn't there, I'd be in a bunker already!

To: Condor who wrote (184)	9/18/2001 12:20:50 AM
From: tekboy	Respond to of 281500

I suspect you and I can agree that our scrutiny of incoming global citizens ( be they temp. or permanent residents) is too casual. I feel we owe it to our next door neighbours (and ourselves) to be much more vigilant in that chore. It's not a question of owing it to us, it's a question of economic necessity for both countries. Take a look at the bridge near Detroit--any kind of serious checking of cargo being carried across would slow the traffic down to a crawl and have terrible economic consequences. Thanks to NAFTA, the U.S., Canada and Mexico are simply too economically integrated for border security to be a purely national concern. We already have, as it were, a kind of junior league de facto Schengen accord, in which anybody who gets into you can pretty easily get into us. So--down the road, part of the answer will be outsourcing security checks (for goods, people, etc.) further and further abroad, and creating public systems sort of like the private systems companies use now to track their goods throughout the supply chain. Excellent reading on this topic can be found here: foreignaffairs.org tekboy/Ares@yup.com