[AdvisorB]

If someone is communicating with alqaeda, yes, I want to know about it. We are at war sir, and what we are doing on the homefront to prevent another alqaeda, or shia sponsored attack is precious little compared to what was done during past wars involving our nation.

Are you also against our detention of enemy combatants picked up on the battlefield, and detained in Guantanamo?

[webstersII]

So it makes sense to prohibit free speech, allow open surveillance of everyone in America, yet not bother closing our porous borders?

That's essentially what Gingrich is proposing.

If you want to compare this to previous wars such as WWII, then let's do like we did then and go all out to win over there where the fight is, and not shut down important parts of our society just because we aren't willing to get the job done.