You haven't mentioned it, but seeing as your priority is fighting terror networks, I was curious about what you thought of the recent morphs of the so-called 'flypaper theory'. For example, from the President's recent speech:
Iraq is the latest battlefield in this war. Many terrorists who kill innocent men, women, and children on the streets of Baghdad are followers of the same murderous ideology that took the lives of our citizens in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. There is only one course of action against them: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home. The commander in charge of coalition operations in Iraq -- who is also senior commander at this base -- General John Vines, put it well the other day. He said: "We either deal with terrorism and this extremism abroad, or we deal with it when it comes to us."
Does that strike a cord with you at all?
-- No, it doesn't make sense to me, because terrorists whose goal is to blow up American cities will come to American cities, not to Iraq, in order to blow up American cities. Keeping them out -- keeping us safe -- means guarding our borders. And we're not doing that. Some "war on terror," when the terrorists can walz right in from Mexico or Canada.
A real war on terror means guarding the homeland. Ask Sharon - he put up a wall to fight terror. But we have a "come on in" policy.