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"I'm putting the resources where they will be most effective."

Precisely what is a more important area to place resources than protecting the perimeter of the homeland? Right now, Osama bin Laden himself could fly to a country in Central or South America, make the trek through Mexico, and walk across our border onto United States soil undetected.

Anyone who doesn't see that as an absurd and unbelievably bad situation is completely nuts. It's going to take a nuclear weapon transported across the southern border and detonated in a major American city before some people wake up and realize how dangerous our open borders are to our national security.

Yes, I'm completely nuts. Thank you for your fine analysis...

Or Osama could come by sea anywhere along our thousands of miles of coastline, by container, walk across the Canadian border in one of million unpopulated locations... Yes Osama could do a lot of things...

Nevertheless, doubling the border guard would have little affect on any of the above. This is a big country with thousand and thousands of miles of border/sea crossings with millions of tons of trade passing over them daily. You will fail stopping Osama from crossing the border if that's what he really wants to do. Even after you spend billions trying to stop him from doing so. We are not talking about armies crossing the borders, were talking individuals.

The solution to our problems can't lie there because if they do, we will surely fail.

You want to spend resources on feel good solutions not based on effectiveness. Much like searching old ladies and children that board airplanes... It has the appearance of security... Where little really exists...