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The "War on Terror" is like the war on blitzkrieg. You can not win a war if you will not identify the enemy.

You also cannot win it if you only partially fight it. Leaving the borders wide open for going on almost five years since 9/11 tells me that either the government isn't really serious about the war, and the airport stuff is just a dog and pony show (and considering some of the lapses since 9/11, I'm thinking more and more that it is). It could also be that the government thinks that they are fighting it overseas. This could very well be the case - most Islamic radicals are more inclined to want to fight in the Middle East rather than the US, since it's a huge afront to them that the US is smack dab in the middle of the region, not to mention with things with Israel heating up. If we manage to make democracies out of Afghanistan and Iraq, that is a huge threat to radical Islam. A huge threat - one most Americans don't seem to realize, because if your typical Islamic sees that the standard of living is better in the democratic countries next door, they will start wondering why they shouldn't have the same (think East Germany/West Germany).

What also has me worried - a lot of politicians at all levels are very interested in having a huge travel corridor running from Central America up through Canada, while making it fairly easy to travel between the various countries. I would have no problem with this, if I felt that other countries had good security measures and control over who comes into their countries.

Take Canada for instance - they have been with us in Afghanistan since we went in, they face some of the same risks as we do, and as a result, their security is much more reliable than say a Mexico - I'm not worried about terrorists making their way into Canada and walking into North Dakota or Montana, but Mexico on the other hand..