[Dane]

Your desire to ignore that process based on a changing world illumates your liberal and socialist ideology.

Actually with Clinton taking the traditional (pre-9/11) American policy of ignoring foreign threats(not taking Bin ladin into custody when he had the chance etc.etc.), he set up the US for disaster.

The world has changed. America's new policy is to pre-emptively deal with potential threats to America. The world is not static, but we can still keep our basic freedoms and deal with the threats, unfortunately that does not work in your static unbending world, IMO.

[tpaine]

The world has changed. America's new policy is to pre-emptively deal with potential threats to America. The world is not static, but we can still keep our basic freedoms and deal with the threats, IMO.
321 -dane-


The world has not appreciably 'changed', -- we have enemies, and we can fight our enemies, - constitutionally.

America's new unconstitutional policy of pre-emptively dealing with 'potential' threats must be stopped, as the Patriot Act power to declare 'potential enemies' is dictatorial in nature, and WILL be abused.
-- We can still keep our basic freedoms and deal with such threats without violating our own principles.