Over the past several days, we've talked about putting a missile defense syetem in place. How will that help against WMD trucked across the Mexican border? Drudge has talked about "back pack nukes." What are we doing to seal the Mexican border to prevent them from being "packed" across the border?
Am I going to get a small pox shot? Damn straight!! The small pox poison in deliverable form/quantity goes into Cuba. From Cuba, it goes to Mexico and is walked across the border. The Dallas area (maybe Austin, San Antonio or El Paso) makes the best/nearest target and is a very easy shot right up Rte 35 from the border.
We have done nothing to seal the Mexican border. The Mexicans would do NOTHING to ensure that WMD don't cross (they'd use it as another bribe opportuinty).
In fact, there is a good test of improved security along the Mexican border. When northern city street prices of drugs start climbing, we will know that we are stopping some of the 200 tons of drugs that come over every year and, if we are stopping drugs, maybe, we are stopping terrorists and WMD.
I like that dems will start putting pressure on Bush to tighten up our borders.
Regarding missle defense, is your point that we should not have missle defense or that we should be securing our borders in addition to having a missle defense? If the later, I agree. If the former,
I should point out that these are two distinct threats. One threat is missles launched by NK, China and the like. The other threat is nukes brought in over the borders. The typical argument by the left that, because we have not addressed one of the threats (backpack nukes) means that we should not address the other (missles launched by NK or China) is obviously silly.