Our national leadership is following the same course with respect to "terrorism". Unless they take effective action, then individually, many of us are going to be facing a life ending circumstance due to their negligence and maleficence. We cannot tolerate officeholders negligence at any level. Fire the GD incompetents, liars, and trombone blowing creeps who will lead you to destruction. Discover the geeks who attend to your business, are concerned with achieving success for you, and will ultimately protect you. Even if they aren't cool - yes that even means you, Barbara Streisand, you stupid cow.
And with regard to China.
It's arrogance--that WE are secure BECAUSE WE are so smart; so advanced; so rich; etc. etc. etc. adtrulynauseum.
To you, I say your post is absolutely magnificent...up until I became lost after "officeholders negligence at any level..."
To compare the tragedy of the decades of lying "leadership" in New Orleans to the ignorance regarding illegals in our borders is truly brilliant!
----"The "leaders" of NO have had 40 years of bickering about whether or not to protect NO against the possibility of a Cat 5 hurricane ...."----
I heard on the radio that Sidney Bumenthal (some guy under Clinton) has written a piece for tomorrow. I only recall vaguely the years, etc. - but it will say something like how in ~2001 there was a study to look at the levees in NO, and then in ~2002 it was given to the corp of engineers to study and in ~2003 Bush pulled the plug on it so the money could go to the war in Iraq. So - Bush DID cause this problem (according to Sydney). Like the Corp. could get anything done in 2 years - other than determine that they needed more money for another study.