Pan-Arab terror represents more than a minor risk to our safety. If we continue to underestimate the threat from Arab-terror we will all be bowing to Mecca six times a day in fifty years.
You are right, I want to obtain more than "temporary safety"; what good will "essential liberty" be when we are living in a totalitarian Muslim state.
I would agree with you if we had done absolutely anything to protect our borders. My question to you is: What good will this do if we continue to let anybody cross into the US from Canada or Mexico?