Originally Posted by GradGirl
For more detail, see Congressman Jim Turner's (Ranking Member of Select Committee on Homeland Security) plan:
http://www.house.gov/hsc/democrats/p...ssrelease2.pdf
double special ops forces,
increase number of FBI agents 50%,
screen 100% of cargo entering U.S. for nuclear material
hire an additional 500 Arabic speakers at State Department
create a U.S. Reconstruction Corps,
"Marshall plan" for the Middle East,
secure unprotected nuclear material worldwide,
destroy all the world's chemical weapons by 2010.
As good as this is, it has two major strikes against it from the beginning:
1: It makes sense
2: It all occurs behind the scenes, and will have nothing to show the masses.