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chamberc: My replies to your points are in blue below.

Of course not, that absurd.

1) We are easily able to identify the enemy. The book of Koran commands followers to commit murder of non-followers:
("Fighting is obligatory for you, much as you dislike it." (Surah 2:216), "Believers, take neither Jews nor Christians for your friends." (Surah 5:51), "When ye encounter the infidels,3 strike off their heads till ye have made a great slaughter among them, and of the rest make fast the fetters. (Surah 47:3 )
OK, we know the terrorists are Muslim. But there are millions of Muslims in the world, so knowing who to arrest or kill is not that simple.

2) We must secure the borders of the United States.
Yes, I totally agree with this. But neither the Republicans or the Dems want to do anything about this. Republicans love the cheap labor they can exploit and the extra consumer goods and services that can be sold to a larger population, even one which is rife with illegal folks. The Dems don't want to shut the border because they feel sorry for the border jumpers.

3) We must actively enforce existing immigration laws, and deport, without possibility of return, those who violate them.
As with #2, you're preaching to the choir here. I agree.

4) We must end support of, or stop ignoring terrorist supporting nation states such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Egypt, et al., through active destabilization both overt and covert as well as financial measures, and ultimately military force when necessary.

Saudi Arabia supplies us with oil and helps to keep the other OPEC nations in some sort of order. It's highly unlikely the US would take any kind of
adverse action. As for the rest, some are isolated/sanctioned already for their evildoing. As far as military action, "all war all the time" is a costly strategy. Bush screwed us in multiple ways, and now Obama has opened up the federal spending spigot. I don't see how we can stretch our military any thinner.

These are just a few of the reasonable actions we should be taking.

chamberc wrote: The murders of 9/11 will not be the last innocent deaths in the war, we just have to keep our guard up, probably forever, because we're unwilling to take the necessary action to end the confrontation.

What action is that? We're at war in 2 countries we know of, we've taken some military action in Africa,
security is ramped up at the scareports, and we're arresting all the terrorists we can find in the USA.

We can't nuke the entire Arabic world. Then we'd have to nuke Islamic Africa. Oh, then there's the 1800
Indonesian islands.

SIA