[snowsislander]

Either way, how would you propose to deal with Mohammed Atta's crew from September 11, 2001 to the Fort Dix Six, three of whom being illegal aliens? I don't like it, but what else can we do? I don't see how we can turn back the clock/calendar. Isn't the first duty of government to defend and protect the people? Globalization is here. What do you propose? I'm not trying to be a smart@ss.

You are not being one. I don't have any pat answers, but I think that actions that smack of imposing a police state are wrong: I don't want our children to grow up in a country that once was free, but became a police state.

If it means that they will be somewhat more vulnerable to terrorists who exploit the openness of a free society, then that seems better to me than the alternative --- at least they can defend themselves better against a few terrorists than against a repressive government.

I would rather trust my fellow citizens in a free country and be wrong about some minute percentage than put my trust in an all-encompassing, repressive government.

[neverdem]

I don't want our children to grow up in a country that once was free, but became a police state.

Well I'm willing to give up in the war on drugs, which happens to be financing the Islamists. What I don't think we can do is ignore the fact that they want to destroy us. They seem perilously close to destroying Europe. With both Sunni and Shia chanting "Death to America," I don't see how we can avoid them.