[JohnGalt]

Do you think that is some kind of thought provoking question or something? Or is a black and white world the only way you can make sense of the events that transpire?

The goverment should have fired and stripped the pensions of every federal law enforcement and bureaucratic official remotely associated with terrorism after 9/11. The borders should have been sealed and every questionable character sent back to their home country. The FAA should have repealed their own law barring firearm possession on airplanes and let individual commercial lines set their own carry-on weapons policy.

Had they done that, I would have been happy to listen to your boogeyman theories.

[Republican Wildcat]

You tell them. Even though what you said is in no way relevant to the question asked, it's good that you are putting these bozos in their place.

[justshutupandtakeit]

RAve on. Mexican terrorists are still bringing over WMDs aren't they? Seems like everyday I hear of a new bean dish. Chemical warfare at its most deadly is being unleashed in Mex restraunts across the land as we speak.

Oh, if only you were in charge how safe I would feel.

[hchutch]

No, I was asking a serious question. The fact you refuse to even answer it speaks volumes, if you ask me.

Did we have an intelligence failure prior to 9/11? No question about it. A big part was due to limitations and restrictions placed on it by the Left dating back to the Church Committee hearings, and also in the mid-90s.

For nearly three decades prior to then, we gutted the intelligence community. We tied their hands behind their back, and then we wondered why they weren't so effective.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95001164

[Miss Marple]

The goverment should have fired and stripped the pensions of every federal law enforcement and bureaucratic official remotely associated with terrorism after 9/11.

Now there's a plan. Fire them all.

Fire all of the tranlators, electronics experts, analysts, weapons experts, bio-war experts, chemists, FBI agents, CIA operatives undercover overseas, satellite map readers. Fire them all.

And you expect people to pay attention to your opinion for exactly what reason?

[Poohbah]

The goverment should have fired and stripped the pensions of every federal law enforcement and bureaucratic official remotely associated with terrorism after 9/11.

OK, suppose they did just that.

Just out of curiousity, how would you deal with the terrorist problem AFTER that? You'd have to have the government go on a hiring binge, get lots of people through security clearance requirements in record time, and get them familiar with their new jobs--and hope that the terrorists didn't take advantage of the chaos your idea would unleash...

The borders should have been sealed and every questionable character sent back to their home country.

Small problem--you just fired everyone in the INS and the Border Patrol, and a large chunk of the military as well. How do you seal the borders?

The FAA should have repealed their own law barring firearm possession on airplanes and let individual commercial lines set their own carry-on weapons policy.

And when a disciplined group of terrorists takes over another airplane with the guns your favorite airline would let them tote on board, and flies it into the Sears Tower...what would you do then?

BTW, if you say "Oh, but the people on the plane would pull out their guns, and shoot the terrorists," you're forgetting that firearms favor the few and the organized over the many and unorganized.