nbcrusader said:
Smells like guilty until proven innocent....
I agree. If she were a LIBERAL black woman, nobody could touch her.
I would like to know what you all think she did wrong. Terrrorism is a constant threat, and you can't ever really tell when and where it will strike. What was she supposed to do?
1- find every young Arab male in flight schools, round them up and lock them up or deport them.
----and get accused of racial profiling and violation of human rights
There is enough complaining about that now, after the fact, especially at airports. How could this ever have been done, really?
2-go attack all the countries that harbor terrorist and root them out!
---sure, the military action taken in Afghanistan and Iraq are unpopular enough AFTER the fact of 9-11, can you image sending troops BEFORE it happened??
3- station fighter jets around all US tall buildings at all times, just in case!
--get real, now, no one is a mind reader. Rice, Bush and the entire gov't had no idea how attacks were going to happen so they were powerless to stop it.
People are so upset now because of it, but consider that BEFORE it happened, no one knew it was going to happen, so they would not have supported anything that might have been done to prevent it (like #'s 1 and 2) because it HADN'T happened yet, and everyone would have condemned the gov't for it.
Another major thing is, intelligence gathering in the fight against terrorism is very difficult, because the people involved do not tell on each other and would not accept spies infiltrating into their midst, which has worked in other situations. Because they are willing to DIE to kill Americans, some even want to and believe they will be glorified for it, there is NOTHING you can do to scare them. Even if you tortured them in interrogation they would never betray their brethren. They would die first, or give false info to throw us off.
So the administration loses either way.
But if they were liberals, no one would care. This wouldn't even be an issue.