I understand your concern about sealing the borders at war and think you are right and Bush was wrong there. But unlike you I can separate the two. Attacks on American interests had been escalating for decades. The perps wer in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t buy the war for oil bs if that’s what you are getting at. We have more than enough energy sources in America to be self sufficient. Of course we don’t have the will and as far as trusting politicians the only thing I trust that they will do is sell their souls to be re-elected. Though there are exceptions. Duncan Hunter for one.
A nation that throws away thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars on a military campaign halfway around the world, while at the same time refusing to protect its own borders, isn't even a real country anymore and no longer has the moral authority to demand any kind of loyalty from its citizenry.