Originally posted by: Lemon law
Originally posted by: GTKeeper
Yea, its getting ridiculous. The government is using any 'threat' as carde blanch to do whatever the hell it pleases no matter how much it costs.
I think the reason we are 'safer' today than before is that our EXISTING agencies woke the f up after 9/11 and started doing their jobs finally.
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With all due respects GTKeeper, I disagree. We have maybe partially plugged one hole in our air line security, but almost ever where else, we have done nothing.
While 911 was spectacular and large, its main target was the world trade center that only happened to be located in the USA.
By contrast, Europe had been targeted by terrorists since at least the early 1970's, with many many smaller and more numerous attacks. And that targeting was largely due to the sin's of a European colonial past. And with no past colonial sins by the US, the US was not targeted.
By over reacting to 911 and by trying to reoccupy various countries, the USA has transformed its self from being off the terrorist radar to being the largest item in their concerns. Right now, as the US bankrupts itself, terrorists are content to let the US stay the course, but we have done almost nothing to harden our defenses. Our ports are wide open, our borders are wide open, we have no tracking of aliens, high value targets are open to attack all over the country, and its almost an open invitation to strike.
And the GWB&co war on terror has actually increased the number of terrorists in an all offense and no defense manner.