Absolutely dead on. Half the people on this thread are ready to surrender the entire BOR as long as it makes us "safer".
I applaud their willingness to sacrifice in order to protect our shores, but at some point, the balance tips, and what we've got isn't worth protecting anymore. It's really strange to read people argue that we're fighting to make people in Iraq free, when all the while we Americans are becoming less and less free. What---we have to give up what we fought for here in order to give them some?