[John D]

Strengthening the borders and enforcing immigration law is anything but surrender.
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I am all for strengthening the borders and enforcing immigration law. What I am against is surrendering to the terrorists. Ron Paul has many issues I agree with, but the most important, National Security, is one where he is way off base.

[militant0]

Surrendering on national security would *never* be acceptable to me. My very handle (the same or similar on most internet services) is partly a result of a very stubborn, almost angry reaction to the idea of anyone doing America harm. However, kicking hornet nests doesn’t seem to be a very smart way of being ‘safe’.

My father left a nest of copperheads unmolested down on the riverbank in our back yard, when I was little. A few years ago I asked him why he did that, with my sister and I running around all summer. His response was rather simple. If they were in the nest, he knew where they were, and could steer his children away from that area. If he had destroyed their nest, they might have taken up residence in scattered places around the property, and all of us would be at much higher risk no matter where we were in the yard.

I believe Iraq bears this analogy out. We no longer know where the enemy is, he is dispersed among the population, his range is spreading, and he strikes at will.