P.S. I liked your book.
Yes...for me 'Witness' was the linchpin that changed my opinion about many things, most notably the American left and the media.
But it didn't change my opinion that societies lacking the willpower to keep themselves from being eaten from within do not survive.
Since we openly allow people from all over the world to come here with little or no documentation, these people are all basically from within our society, if we cannot distinguish them. If we do nothing about it, in the current climate, America will finished as a nation.
The fact that you are offended that someone has to point out that people died to precipitate this situation says more about your point of view than it does about mine. There are a lot of people who forget that there are many things precipitated by the events of 9/11. They think this horrible crisis of FBI agents needing access to a public computer happened in a vacuum, or that the government was just waiting for an excuse to do it. These are the same people who never ask themselves the question: "If 9/11 had not happened, would we be in Iraq right now in the capacity we are?"
It is sad indeed that some people have to REMIND other people that there is such a thing as cause and effect. There are people out there saying "We spend too much time thinking about 9/11, we should put it behind us..." You certainly sound like one of those people who think post-9/11 will be the same as pre-9/11. Sorry to have to be the one to throw the picture in your face of an American who died that day. But perhaps you are not one of those people.
You may be living in a utopian reality, or maybe perhaps your "2 million people killed rather than 2000" statement was just rhetoric, but for a supposed conservative you are displaying all the hallmarks of the opposite state of mind.
Liberalism has an unattainable utopian future in which any means justifies the ends to achieve it, including a supposed society where nobody is going to fly planes into buildings, and closing your eyes to the likelihood of it happening is just as important as finding the likely perpetrators of such an action.