On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:18:07 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:58:30 -0400, HarryKrause wrote:

John H. wrote:



We *cannot* protect everything in this country from terrorists.


About all we are "protecting" from terrorists in this country are the
politicians. These would be the last people I'd spend money to protect.

How would *you* go about protecting all the things that need protection, Harry?


First, I'd stop wasting lives and money on Iraq. If we're bringing war
to them, they're certainly capable of bringing it to us, and, in fact,
did, yesterday. We're not defeating terrorism in Iraq.

I'd close our borders and use our national guard to patrol our northern
and southern borders, and increase funding for the coasties so they
could do a better job of patroling our wet borders.

The National Guard has a mission. An armor battalion is wasted performing guard
duties on the border, as is an engineer battalion or signal battalion.
Performing guard duties prevents the Guard from training for their real mission.
Would you activate them full time? Whose National Guard would you use,
Maryland's?

Wouldn't it make more sense to increase the size of the Border Patrol and tell
them to shoot?

I'd devise a reliable system for checking freighters and their contents
coming to our ports.

Would we stop every freighter, unload and inspect all the containers? How long
would we allow the line of freighters to get? Would we simply quadruple the size
of the Coast Guard.

I'd harden public infrastructure, such as subways, bridges, tunnels,
dams, where possible through retrofitting, and more closely guard all
major venues where people gather in large numbers.

Should we have airport type security for every subway, train, and bus stop in
America? What is a big number? If forty can be killed, is that a big enough
number? Should we have TSA folks at every school cafeteria? Why not? How about
at every high school basketball or football game?

I would take a good chunk of the $2 billion a week we are wasting on
Iraq, and use it instead to buy legitimate intelligence from arab assets
who can be recruited by and infiltrate al Qaeda cells.

Your measly $2 billion wouldn't even come close to guarding the high school
football games.

I'd stop wasting money on bigger and better military hardware
acquisitions, and concentrate military expenditures on personnel and
training that will help us keep track of terrorist activities. We need
fewer bombers, aircraft carriers and tanks, and more brainpower.

The people who build the bombers, aircraft carriers, and tanks take just the
opposite approach. But, your idea about less concentration on conventional
warfare is a good one, unless China gets it in it's shorts to go do some 'land
acquisition'.

That's just off the top of my head.

Well, better think again.

Oh...in the next election, I think we ought to pick someone smart.

Maybe the Debs will have somebody decent as an alternative?


Your conservative, militaristic approach...doesn't work.

You think adding a few million Coast Guardsmen will do the job?

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD