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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
But that's a big area out there. The border between Canada and the U.S. is about 4,000 miles long, with all kinds of "drive across" unsecured routes between the two countries, let alone where that helicopter might have gone. Because the northern coastline of Alaska and Canada is so irregular, that border on the Arctic Ocean may be twice as long. Now for a part of each year that border is open water. Ten or twenty years from now, it may be open water all year long. That's a heck of a responsibility for any border security agency, however good they might be. A whole lot of terrorism could eminate from four guys in a van with the right kind of weaponry obtained from "somewhere".
All I'm saying is that assuring our national security is far from a sure thing, even worse when we're facing a period when our expenditures on such things are going to have to compete with other important priorities.
You are right--those guys out there don't want to negotiate, they just want to kill as many of us as possible.
(Although I don't know why. You and I at least are really nice guys, I think. I know I'll vouch for you, sight unseen!)
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VERY big area...got to see much when in the Navy..from the Aleutian Islands east !!!!
I am anxiously waiting to see what this administration does with budgets for the military and national security...I hope what I heard during the campaign is tempered by what he has/will learn in the WH. We cannot allow ourselves to listen to those who feel the need to overzealously protect individual rights over the countries security.
Yes...they want to kill us...they said it before and continue to and we just pooh pooh it....fearmongering....politics...what have you. These are not nice people...they have lots of money.
Amnesty International today was all over Secy Clinton because she said on her trip to China human rights will not be on the agenda or at least on top of it. Human rights is important as long as their are humans around to excercise them....probably a bit dramatic but we have serious threats to our security. This administration has got to step up to the plate and face it !
PS....OK, I will vouch for you as well !!