I don't think so. I saw an international poll once about attitudes on America. Depending on the country, there were a lot of mixed feeling about us. But one thing that was consistent was that America is necessary for peace in the world.
Anybody want to see if they can dig up this poll? I'm getting tired.
"Rather than let the government listen to Al Qaeda, let everyone listen." You're talking total chaos and anarchy. Too many cooks spoil the broth
How so. What's wrong with an international neighborhood watch? The Washington Sniper terrorists were caught because a citizen was listening in on a police radio. The information that the snipers were in a maroon Chevy was being withheld from the public but a bunch of truckers picked this up on a police scanner, (illegal in some jurisdictions), the car was spotted at a truck stop and these Muslim terrorists were apprehended.
People scoff at the idea of citizens stopping terrorist acts but it does happen.
That's true enough. But that wasn't international listening. That was local. They speak in Arabic, how many Americans such as you and I speak arabic? I don't.
I agree with Bush. If al queda is calling someone in this country, I want to know why. It's legal.
They forget about Flight 93 being taken down by the passengers when they realized what was going on. They sacrificed themselves to save others. Do we KNOW FOR A FACT that any government actions saved as many lives as that one that day by civilians likely did?
And of course there are the Minutemen that prevented many illegal crossings just by being at the border. I don't know that there were any terrorists in that number, but there were surely some criminals the like of which have terrorized our country.
Americans did the job when America did not.