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Make no mistake, Israel, Iraq, Iran and even Afghanistan aside, the Islamists would have come for us. Then, what would you have done? Gone Jacksonian on them?

Technology has changed the world.

It has both eliminated the need and the wisdom of living in cities.

I would America stop immigration, as the more people, the harder to become self sufficient.

And the more people, the denser the population, which makes the use of WMDs more deadly.

America should isolate herself as much as possible, become as self-sufficent as possible, and her population should begin to move back to live in rural areas.

We no longer need to work right next door to each other--many of us can telecommute from homes in the country.

Cities are obsolete and present a fat target for terrorists possessing WMD's.

I do not believe we can completely stop terrorist from the mideast or wherever, from some day attacking us with WMDs.

BUT--for a weapon of mass destruction to work, it needs a mass of people to act upon.

Therefore, the best fortress is no fortress.

People should return to living in rural areas.

That will be the best way to protect against WMD terrorism.

Even during the cold war, the government advised city planners to attempt to spread out urban areas, but city planners ignored that adivce.

Under the fear of WMD terrorism, it's even better advice today.

Ummmmm.....That's not going to happen. None of those things.

First of all hiding and hoping for the best is not a strategy. Running away and living far from others is not a good defence. It's no defence at all. And what will you do when they attack?

Even if you aren't hit, you are going to ignore the deaths of your countrymen? You won't want justice?

With all due respect, that is just whack. That reminds me of racists and Neo-Nazis and all those freaks whose solution for life's problems is to blame other people (preferably those who look different), move to a compound in the middle of nowhere, hope for the best (and/or the worst) and indoctrinate their children to do the same.

Short of some sort of armageddon scenario, there is not going to be reverse urbanization, with everyone moving back to the countryside.

Also, stopping immigration altogether is impossible. As long as we are wishing, I wish for heaven on earth.

Furthermore, even if America forgets the world and stops doing things and stops trading and spreading culture and everything else they do that people hate, the world will not forget or forgive.

Furthermore, technology needs cities to operate for a large number of reasons. Cities are also opportunity cost efficient, when you are looking at the big picture, so it's not likely that people will choose NOT to live in cities.

Doing nothing is no way to defend yourself, no way to win a war, and is unAmerican and unWestern.

Okay, let's all go back to living in caves and the hunter gather life style. After all, what WMD could possibly work on people who lived like that? /sarcasm

Go build yourself a bunker and live like a hermit, if you so desire, but saying that cities are obsolete, is delusional in the extreme! And biological warfare, which IS something that Saddam and the Islamonazis and even other crazies have either used or would love to use against us, is not deterred by the rurality of the populace the wish to use it against.

And while there was a time, when most things Americans wanted were grown and/or manufactured here, there has NEVER been a time when we did not import things and food from other places.

I suspect that you are very unhappy to be living now and yearn for a time, which though it never existed outside of your own imaginings, you wish you had been born to. Well, until a time machine is really invented, you're stuck; live with it.

1. Cities will always be needed as trading centers. The current trend is commuting, not leaving cities empty.

I agree with you on immigration, but it does not change the fact that we need oil. We could and should develop other energy resources. However, we cannot ignore the Islamist threat. Otherwise, they will create a Caliphate from the Phillipenes to Morrocco and overwhelm Europe.
They mean to conquer the world. It is better to defeat them now then wait until we are alone.