Originally Posted by cactuspete
Downside of fear-fest: Somebody gets their feelings hurt.
Downside of PC-fest: Thousands of innocent U.S. citizens are slaughtered.
Now tell me about common sense.
It's much bigger than that.
When people can be snatched and questioned without probable cause, the fabric of American society is gone. Thousands or even millions of deaths cannot replace that fabric.
Why did we go to war so many times after our independence from Britain? To prevent the very thing that you advocate, whether it was currently occuring on our soil, or whether we feared it would spread to our soil.