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To: patriciaruth
Our troops are trained to kill and not arrest? Our troops have been turned into the cop on the beat, look at Bosnia.

Both borders need defending. If women and children don't want to be killed they shouldn't hang around with drug smugglers. The only danger our troops would face would be being fired on by cartels.

Let me ask you to remember something right after 9-11 when our troops were placed at border crossings, activity, especially illegal activity, border jumpers, and drugs dried up at the border for the entire time the troops were in position.

I'm afraid your blood bath scenario is just not realistic.
485 posted on 11/25/2002 12:14:48 AM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: MissAmericanPie
If women and children don't want to be killed they shouldn't hang around with drug smugglers.
I'm afraid your blood bath scenario is just not realistic.

I'm not for American soldiers doing policing in Bosnia. I think that police work takes the edge off a soldier and can get him/her killed in subsequent duty assignments.

And when you put the Guard or the U.S. Army on police duty, eventually you get Kent State. Maybe you don't remember Kent State. Or do you think that American demonstrators should be shot down as well as women and children being smuggled across our border?

However angry you are, you can't sell that to the majority of the American public. And frankly, I'm glad that most Americans don't carry around the kind of anger that doesn't blanch at killing kids.

I think if we are going to prevail, it is going to be slowly and cautiously changing the Border Patrol administration, and slowly getting undocumenteds documented in an updated computer system with fingerprint ID's of prior arrested illegal alien detainees and felons.

And there may be a way down the road of exacting some penalties on repeat offenders, to end the revolving door.

But the libs have brainwashed an entire generation in our schools and universities and have preimminent propaganda rights to the broadcast news that goes into most brains, and the TV shows and comedians generally reinforce all this.

We have a tougher road to get the public on our side than you are willing to admit.

And why I am discussing this is because I think it is time to see beyond anger and angry "solutions" that won't work, and try to figure a course that has a chance of working even though we are way behind the eight ball at the moment.

486 posted on 11/25/2002 12:42:44 AM PST by patriciaruth
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