LOL, you’re not doing my heatburn any good.
I realize we have to walk a fine line with Saudi Arabia, but it strikes me as defeatist to force our citizens into storm trooper airports, but then allow potential terrorists in as a normal routine.
Are we serious about ending terrorism, or is this just some joke on the U.S. Citizen, that he has to take the brunt of the new programs?
Don’t put out potential terrorists. That would be bad. Put out U.S. Citizens. Now that’s good...
I agree. Trying to stop an enemy who primarily does guerrilla warfare (assassination, etc.) almost solely by way of defensive police methods at home won’t be effective. The enemy is using our current activities to buy his time, build his nukes, etc. We don’t need a police state at home. Soldiers fight wars. We need to go to the strongest source of enemy supply, training and morale, and defeat him. He must be beaten until he has no more will to fight. He must be denazified, until all of his local leaders, teachers and writers have no will to hate.
But oil would go up in the process. We might even have to ration oil in order to get it done. If we, as a nation, have no will to really fight, we’ll increasingly have a police state, until the enemy further consolidates, is ready to wake up his cells here and brings the fight to us.
Determined assassins eventually find their ways around security. We need to be aware of that and finish the War. We need to ditch the present “bunker,” defense-only mentality and attack the enemy. IMO, we’re not going to soften him up enough with social incursions (diplomats’ ho’house enticements in the Middle Eastern bazaar).