[A. Pole]

How many more 9/11s are you willing to have the US absorb?

You might find it callous but a strong big nation should be able to absorb occasional terrorist attack without giving up its freedoms or being drawn into expensive and unfocused foreign adventures. I do not think that we need Patriot act I and II or war in Iraq. I shudder to think what will follow another WTC like event.

To put things in perspective, every years 500 000 of Americans die out of cancer. Such death often is much worse than from the bomb. A fraction of $87 billions spent on cancer research would do more good.

[quidnunc]

A. Pole wrote: You might find it callous but a strong big nation should be able to absorb occasional terrorist attack without giving up its freedoms or being drawn into expensive and unfocused foreign adventures. I do not think that we need Patriot act I and II or war in Iraq. I shudder to think what will follow another WTC like event. To put things in perspective, every years 500 000 of Americans die out of cancer. Such death often is much worse than from the bomb. A fraction of $87 billions spent on cancer research would do more good.

This has to be one of the most empty-headed things ever uttered here on Free Republic.

You sir or madam (as the case may be) are a complete and utter lackwit.

[Ukiapah Heep]

So which Americans would you send to their deaths to avoid war?