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I agree. For a week we hear whining about why didn't the President tell us there was a threat of hijacking.

Now when people start getting "real honest" (i.e. Mueller, Rumsfield, Cheney), people start screaming why are they saying these things.

Fact, if somebody is willing to kill themselves to accomplish their goals, and there are enough of them, there is no way we will be able to stop every terrorist attack.

Look at Israel, small country, very tight security (unlike us) and yet, they admitt, we cannot stop every terrorist attack.

I don't hear anybody yelling about them being defeatists because they face the reality that terrorists attacks (especially in a country as large as ours) are nearly impossible to eliminate.

The United States has the largest budget in the history of the world. Our government spends $2 trillion per year. We can secure the border of South Korea. We can secure the border of Kuwait and send half a million troops to kick Iraq out of Kuwait. We can occupy Bosnia and dozens of other hot spots in the world. Our government can dream up and implement every hair-brained social scheme known to man and spend billions on it. Our government can dictate the amount of water allowed to be flushed in our toilets.

This country has the financial resources to build walls 30 feet high the entire distance of both our north and south borders. We have the resources to monitor every water vessel entering our waters.

To say we can do nothing about allowing terrorists into our country is absolutely preposterous!

The admission by our leaders that we have to grab our ankles and let thousands more die at the hand of terrorists is a clarion call to remove the political leadership of the United States and put some serious adults in charge.

For a week we hear whining about why didn't the President tell us there was a threat of hijacking.

Now when people start getting "real honest" (i.e. Mueller, Rumsfield, Cheney), people start screaming why are they saying these things.

You've summed it up nicely.

The thing to do, is to keep the number of casualties to a minimum. We shouldn't be defeatist, any more than cancer researchers are defeatist because they know that people are still dying of cancer.

We should be prepared for the bumps in the road ahead and give the terrorists as hard a time as we can.

Lately this phrase from the Book of Matthew comes to my mind....And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Jesus didn't say be defeatist, but He was realistic. His advice doesn't only apply to the End Times. It can be applied to our daily lives in this imperfect world, too.

>Now when people start getting "real honest" (i.e. Mueller, Rumsfield, Cheney), people start screaming why are they saying these things.

I blame Mueller because there are prudential, Constitutional measures which have NOT been taken: Securing the borders, deporting illegals from al-queda countries, fixing the INS, SSN, visa loopholes. Instead the agencies are maintaining their interia. They are going to allow the people to take the blow and issue useless warnings rather than actually improve security.