Homeland Security--The Bush View
Paul does a good job of summarizing Kerry's position on Homeland Security, with one glaring omission: What about the Patriot Act?
It is pretty clear that Kerry would eliminate certain provisions in the Act. It is also pretty clear that President Bush will push for reathorization of the Patriot Act, provisions of which would expire otherwise late next year.
Here's a website put up by the US Department of Justice explaining the Patriot Act and why it deserves reauthorization.
Paul and Kerry make some good points about beefing up security, but the basic fact is that we cannot achieve perfect security without giving up our quality of life. We cannot inspect every container that enters the United States through our ports; by some estimates we only inspect 1-2% of them at the present time, and we cannot move that number without vastly increasing the size of the inspection team.
President Bush's position is that it is far better to take the battle to the terrorists overseas than attempt to protect the almost infinite number of targets inside the United States. I would also note that President Bush's approach uses both the carrot and the stick; the carrot consists of setting up a model government in Iraq to show that Arabs can live in a democracy, just as Europeans, South Americans, Asians and Africans can. And the stick is of course the use of the US military to roust out dictators who support the terrorist networks.
The best evidence that the Bush policy on Homeland Security is working? It's really quite simply the fact that it's been over three years since 9-11 and we haven't been hit again. I guarantee you could have gotten long odds on the possibility that another terrorist attack would not happen in that period of time.
It is pretty clear that Kerry would eliminate certain provisions in the Act. It is also pretty clear that President Bush will push for reathorization of the Patriot Act, provisions of which would expire otherwise late next year.
Here's a website put up by the US Department of Justice explaining the Patriot Act and why it deserves reauthorization.
Paul and Kerry make some good points about beefing up security, but the basic fact is that we cannot achieve perfect security without giving up our quality of life. We cannot inspect every container that enters the United States through our ports; by some estimates we only inspect 1-2% of them at the present time, and we cannot move that number without vastly increasing the size of the inspection team.
President Bush's position is that it is far better to take the battle to the terrorists overseas than attempt to protect the almost infinite number of targets inside the United States. I would also note that President Bush's approach uses both the carrot and the stick; the carrot consists of setting up a model government in Iraq to show that Arabs can live in a democracy, just as Europeans, South Americans, Asians and Africans can. And the stick is of course the use of the US military to roust out dictators who support the terrorist networks.
The best evidence that the Bush policy on Homeland Security is working? It's really quite simply the fact that it's been over three years since 9-11 and we haven't been hit again. I guarantee you could have gotten long odds on the possibility that another terrorist attack would not happen in that period of time.
posted by Pat at 11:40 AM
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