Originally Posted by
FredAnderssen
So what's your suggestion? A zero tolerance policy? The only way to implement that is to restrict all travel from all countries to the United States. As GUWonder said, "The "fix" may be disproportionate to the "problem" and cause more problems than it resolves."
Imagine letting a non-Persian like Anders Breivik into the country (before his mass slaughter). I suppose the solution is to restrict all blue-eyed Scandinavian types.
There is no extreme vetting that will catch all potential criminals. It just isn't humanely possible to do so. Maybe a wall built completely around the U.S. might help along with restricting ALL air travel to and from the U.S.
Here's the face of a murdering terrorist:
My personal view is that the system/process as it currently exists is perfectly fine (well, maybe not "perfectly"). I completely agree that there is no way to prevent all people with bad intentions of doing bad things. I also agree that policy pronouncements and actions like this are bound to have unfortunate and disparate impact.
But such pronouncements sell well to the constituencies that elected this administration on the basis of promises for those pronouncements. All will work out as the system comes back into stasis....
If it doesn't - there are protests, legislation and elections upcoming.