Originally Posted by GradGirl
Here are the suggestions I've been talking about, in a
press release and
90-page report from Jim Turner, ranking member of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security.
Double the size of U.S. Special Operations Forces;
Agreed
Increase the number of FBI agents by 50%;
Agreed
Create a Director of National Intelligence;
Agreed
Monitor every mile of the U.S. border 24 hours a day, 7 days a week;
Agreed
Secure all unprotected nuclear material world-wide and destroy all chemical weapons by 2010;
Agreed
Screen 100% of all cargo containers entering America for nuclear materials;
Agreed
A Marshall Plan for the Middle East to create a middle class and a regional common market;
Disagree, we need to take care of our own people first.
$10 billion global alliance for improving education for Arab children;
Disagree, we need to take care of our own people first.
Hire and train an additional 500 Arabic speakers at the State Department over the next 3 years;
Agreed
Double the number of exchange program visitors from the Arab-Muslim world;
Disagree, we have enough problems keeping track of the people here.
Increase the Peace Corps to 25,000 volunteers;
Agreed but not for just the Middle East
Create a U.S. Reconstruction Corps ready to deploy to post-conflict zones;
Disagree, we need to take care of our own people first.
Triple funding for U.S. democratization efforts world-wide; and
Got us in trouble already
Promote one year of national service for all young Americans.
Agreed