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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (889)	12/11/2004 5:26:16 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224667

Where do you find this stuff? While I'm sure there are many out there who desire to see America obliterated, it's not that easy to obliterate a country the size of the United States. I don't mean to oversimplify, but my biggest fear is that paranoia over Muslim extremists will cause us to focus on obscure threats at the expense of basic, common sense security procedures and intelligence efforts that should be in place every day regardless of the threat level. September 11 involved hijacked airplanes. It should not have been possible to hijack airplanes, period. If the cockpits had been secure 9/11 would not have happened. El Al had secure cockpits for decades, but not US carriers. Was anyone fired for this lapse? No. The military needs to get it's act together. The anthrax attacks were from US anthrax strains. Was anyone fired? No. The Los Alamos problems also represent security lapses that simply shouldn't happen. Was anyone fired? Probably not. The illegal immigration is just starting to get attention. Why? Ranchers in TX, Bush's home state, have been screaming about the flood of illegals for years, yet we don't address the root cause - jobs. Put people in jail for hiring illegals and the flood of illegals would dry up to a trickle. Last year Ashcroft's Justice Dept filed suit against 14 companies for hiring illegals. Wow! Instead of addressing the root problem we're spending billions on fences and guards and inspectors, some of which are necessary, of course, but the root solution is to put people in jail for hiring illegals. And that includes the nominee for Homeland Security Director, who just admitted he had issues related to employing a nanny. The latest intel "overhaul" bill that just passed... it doesn't address the issue of driver's licenses. Jeepers! That's the basic form of ID everyone carries and is so easy to get most of the 9/11 hijackers and most illegals have them. What am I missing here? I could go on and on, but you see the point. We need more common sense and less paranoia. Security is not rocket science. It's common sense, and as Bush might say, its "hard work". We need focus on the simple basics every day, day in and day out, and stop worrying about Armageddon. Also important is that the 9/11 attack should be understood as the Islamists do: that it was a prelude designed to test al-Qaeda's possibilities and explore American vulnerabilities that are to be used in the final assault. Al-Qaeda wants the final assault to inflict a mortal blow to America or inflict sufficiently large damage so that US would become a desert that will never be able to recover into an oasis of freedom. If the aim is a mortal attack on the US, then acts of the 9/11 type seem to be important to the terrorists only as morale boosters for their allegiance. But to achieve destruction of America, islamic terrorists want to hit targets such as nuclear facilities or the stockpiles of the atomic weapons, or use the weapons of mass destruction that will kill all alive but keep the material wealth of the US which islamic terrorists covet.