[Lysander]

The President and Congress are simply not capable of preventing terrorist attacks from occurring by legislation or by curtailing our rights. The solution is prevention of the cause of terrorism, our failed intervention into the Israel-Palestinian fight.

They should stop pretending and focus their attention on combating terrorism within the framework of a free society, unless the real goal is a militaristic police state.

[sinkspur]

unless the real goal is a militaristic police state.

You've got the libertarian mantra down, don't you?

[truth_seeker]

"The President and Congress are simply not capable of preventing terrorist attacks from occurring by legislation or by curtailing our rights. The solution is prevention of the cause of terrorism, our failed intervention into the Israel-Palestinian fight."

Do you seek the "right" to be a terrorist?

The US has gone farther than ANY entity, to find a basis for peace between the two subject factions. So while the "intervention" may have "failed" it was honestly attempted.

Is the palestine issue, the cause for muslim-terrorists to murder Christian missionaries, in the Philippines? Same question, for terror by radical muslim factions, in the former USSR? Islamist terror is a problem, of grave proportions, not tied directly to Israel.

I'll gladly submit to some reduction of my freedom, to provide my government the tools to fight this threat.

The US Constitution is not intended to be a "suicide pact."