"Straighten up and fly right" is not yet the order of the day.
IF Bush is aware of this event, then one would have to wonder if, along with a forked tongue, he also has a forked brain. No one in their right mind should even CONSIDER allowing such things to happen. Not much different than saying...here's the noose, when do you want the hanging?
It's time to stop concerning ourselves with the 'civil rights' or (non-existent) 'Constitutional rights' of anyone who wishes to enter this country. Thousands of innocent American men, women and children can no longer lay claim to their civil or Constitutional rights because they were murdered by foreign/alien (excuse the political incorrectness) madmen in the most heinous, senseless act of violence ever perpetrated on American soil.
My apologies to those non-Americans who wish to come to our shore (or sneak across our border) in order to pursue the 'American dream' (or to suck the American taxpayer dry by becoming a ward of the welfare state .... take your pick). Those of us who are already here (and some of us whose ancestors have been here for generations) are still reeling from the bloodshed of 9/11/01 (which was, in large part, the result of decades of leftist/'we are the world'/multicultural/hate America domestic and foreign policy indoctrination). We're busy mopping up the blood, channeling the anger, and disabling/destroying the perpetrators. And, until we have achieved what the psychobabblers seek to call closure, and have ourselves assured that we and our fellow Americans are safe from an encore of 9/11/01 (and don't hold your breath in the waiting), our doors need to be locked. American blood is thicker than multicultural 'melting pot' water. And we will do whatever we must to see that not one more drop of that precious commodity is shed. If we seem anti-social, unbending, and inhospitable, so be it.
no prohibition against issuing visas .... as long as they meet all visa requirements .... They did not show up on anybody's want list, so they were appropriately admitted.
It's time to change, or righteously ignore, existing 'visa requirements.' There is a reason that a person shows up on a want list. And, by the time his face appears there, that reason is irrevocable history (and more havoc has most likely been wreaked on innocent people). Yeah, 'innocent until proven guilty' has a nice ring to it. But when the state of the world has become so perilous as to render that noble concept potentially fatal to multitudes of people, it's time to practice restrained nobility. Let's not cross our fingers (and tie our hands) in the name of civil rights, and possibly allow these fourteen Syrian flight school students to get their pilots' licenses, hijack a plane (or four), murder a few thousand more innocents, and go into hiding. Then, following necessary 'procedure,' and presuming that they are now included in the precious want list, we can begin the long and arduous task of hunting them down. And, while we are hunting them down, we will no doubt be training other 'legal immigrants' whose sole purpose is to perpetrate some atrocity that will grant them want list inclusion as well.
In light of the no-turning-back events of 9/11/01, little paranoia/isolationism is sometimes a healthy thing ....