[muskogee]

Imagine yourself as the president. What would you have done after the first WTC bombing to prevent the second? I submit to you that unless it was bold, conspiratorial,controversial, unprecedented, unauthorized by the U.N. or the French, involved Marines and a lot of funding it wouldn't have prevented anything. If you agree, then the question is did the President's bold strike to Iraq prevent future death to Americans on American soil? If you disagree, the question is how does a "conservative" president know what is regional terrorism and what is global terrorism?

[JohnGalt]

A well armed citizenry with a government policy of tight borders and a decentralized security apparatus would have prevented it, but that is just how I, as a conservative, sees it. Feel free to disagree, it your prerogative.