[gov_bean_ counter]

You're too funny. But in doing so are making a great point.

Say we deploy drones or put more military on the border.

Then what??? Shoot on sight? Don't think so.

[muawiyah]

That's roughly the same answer I give to the "boots on the ground" crowd.

Troops are not cops. So, if we deploy them do we do so under the same rules we would use in invading Iraq perhaps?

Sending the military up to the border to shoot civilians may be something WE don't want to do even if a few politicians imagine they can convince us we ought to do.

A static defense system that reacts passively to large crowds is certainly something we need to avoid the use of machineguns and hellfire missiles.