<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Felix Unger:
We are at war, a new kind of war, with non-state combabtants that wish to murder our citizens as they work, play, and worship. Until their evil is wiped off the face of the earth, we will ratchet up security to do the best job possible to protect our borders from this demonstrated threat, and the ballot box will be the ultimate arbitrer of how we go about this. </font>
We will always be at war. Terrorism isn't going away.
If we were in a limited engagement, like WWI or WWII, it would be a different story to suspend things for a short while. But this isn't a limited engagement; we're never going to be completely safe.
Ratcheting up security more and more and throwing away more of the principles of a free society isn't going to make us safer, but it will make America and the world a worse place to live.
And on a side note, as I mentioned above, the US cannot afford to discourage people and money from coming to the US. Our economy is entirely dependent upon it. If we ratechet security up high enough, we won't have to worry about terrorism -- we won't be a superpower anymore and the world's attention will move elsewhere. That's how the economics of our situation work.
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