[maestro]

......Governments can issue proclamations declaring "war on terror". They can clean up the mess and count the bodies after a terror attack. They can guard a limited number of "important" sites. They can even take away your civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism, but they CANNOT PROTECT YOU......

WW-II never happened....

/sarcasm

[flaminco]

"WW-II never happened...."

sorry, I assumed you understood we were talking about terrorism. should read "CANNOT PROTECT YOU FROM TERRORISM"

Incidentally, I was talking about governments in general, not the US government in particular. The reason the US government won WWII was partially due to it's constitution, and partially due to it's people. This includes the people in it's government. The US did not win because of their government.

The countries who lost WWII had governments who could not protect their people either. This is because people are not suddenly endowed with superior judgment simply because they go to work for the government. Indeed, often the opposite is true. Government is the least efficient form of bureaucracy there is.