Originally Posted by moeve
Odyssues: You just cannot compare the situation in Isreal with the one in the US!!! They totally different. What you are sugesting would mean the US looses one of it's most important ideals. Freedom as a lawabiding Citizen! This is an ideal that is broadcast to the world as something they have and every nation in the world should try to achieve. History tells us that every war or conflicht the US has ever been involved has had freedom for lawabiding citizen in some form of another as a basis.
Americans correct me if I am wrong but did your Forefathers not declare the United States the land of the free - It is a trait that allows the US the postion that it has today - destroy that and you destroy everything the USA stands for. Oh and the bad guys win!!
not that true - in the civil war Grant ordered jews out of the western war theatre because he believed that some jews were traficking between northern markets and the south; and of course in wwii the US interned japanese.
neither of these were the brightest or best examples of american democracy, but spending two minutes talking to people to insure that terrorists can't kill off a few thousand americans seems like a very minor matter.
and yes, israel is in a very differnet position from america, right now, but that will change. terror is now going to be coming to the US n a regular basis. it can be addressed in any number of ways. I think (and I believe that my opinion has good weight due to some of the experinece that I have picked up in life) that by adding a few of these types of programs America could cut out all of the wasteful programs like the campaign against nail clippers and lighters. nail clippers and lighters don't kill people, terrorists do. and you can identify terrorists, if you take the time to talk to them.