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I feel like a polititian-- waffeling all over on this one. I agree with your perspective... but I also see Arab-backed terrorism at home as a serious problem as more and more of these "sleeper cells" materialize. Its best to prevent the entry of the foriegn arab nationals... but Liberals in Congress claim its racism.

Ted Kennedy equated the INS's stricter controls on Arab visas to our illegal determent of Japanese Americans during WWII... w/ this type of hyperbole and a press willing to consume and disseminate it what do we do?

I would agree with border interdiction with our military and cooperation between LEOs and Military Intelligence or Special Ops against known foreign enemies here at home. Protection of certain assets by the military is also fine. I think what folks worry about are routine military roadblocks, military undertaking customary police duties such as home searches and identity documentation and arrests. I could live with a very limited sunset use of our military in certain applications.

If another terrorist shoe drops then all bets are off. We will in all likelyhood revert back to a WWII style suspension of normality at a minimum.