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To: tejek who wrote (235967)	6/5/2005 4:34:44 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571682

I agree that civil liberties have contracted as the needs of security have expanded. But that is exactly the new balance that is needed in this new world of individual terrorists with access to mass destructive capabilities. Now before all of you liberals take the above out of context, there is a big caveat to this. We need more security, that is clear. But we have to balance that with the need to keep our society and open one and that is an incredibly difficult line to walk. One of the things we have to be willing to do in order to keep the security apparatus at bay is to be willing to live with a little more uncertainty and anxiety. This is what the Israelis have learned. They have learned to live with risk, so that they can continue to live free. We need to do the same. So the balancing act will entail appropriate security, maintaining an open and free society, and living with risks and anxiety. We're finding that balance now, but we will never again be a nation as open as we were prior to 9/11. That era of naively believing that over here we could avoid the kind of insanity that goes on in the Middle East is over.