22 February 2005
Homeland Insecurity Again
Despite new technology, Border Patrol overwhelmed
Another illustration of the apparent lack of any serious intent to secure our borders.
We can improve the efficiency of our intelligence. We can start a new cabinet agency dedicated to "Homeland Security" with a whole bunch of new bureaucrats. We can set up a system to insure that Grandma isn't carrying a Kalashnikov onto an airliner to hijack the plane (but don't dare search Abdul or Tarik - that would be "profiling".
Whether or not any of this really helps or not can be debated - but if we don't control our own borders, and who crosses them, it's all sort of like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
Another illustration of the apparent lack of any serious intent to secure our borders.
We can improve the efficiency of our intelligence. We can start a new cabinet agency dedicated to "Homeland Security" with a whole bunch of new bureaucrats. We can set up a system to insure that Grandma isn't carrying a Kalashnikov onto an airliner to hijack the plane (but don't dare search Abdul or Tarik - that would be "profiling".
Whether or not any of this really helps or not can be debated - but if we don't control our own borders, and who crosses them, it's all sort of like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
