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No apology necessary! Your follow up post makes sense and you raise lots of good issues. In fact, I can't find anything that I disagree with really.
Here's my perspective (and I may be just as bad a conveying my thoughts tonight. I'm a bit fried in the brain). I think we can agree that another terrorist attack is a concern after 9/11, especially since our actions since then (right or wrong) haven't exactly endeared us to the people that want to harm us. So as I sit and ponder what we can do, the thing that makes the most sense to me is make sure that we know who is coming in and out of our country, whether it be by land, sea, or air.
Maybe this isn't the best analogy but if you were robbed at home, I bet the first thing you would do the following night is make sure your doors were locked and you wouldn't let anyone in without seeing who they were first. That's just common sense. Now there may be other ways to enter your house that you haven't thought of but that doesn't mean you shouldn't make some sort of increased effort to protect yourself.
I do realize that the war on drugs teaches us that we will never solve this problem completely. Our borders are huge and I respect that. I think we need to listen to the guys on the front line though. They give the impression that things are getting worse and I don't think we can afford worse.
But, it just may be that there is really nothing that we can do to prevent another attack. I don't like that idea but it is a possibility.
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