MatthewJ: Let me give a moderate defense of the President at this point. A lot of conservatives are for militarizing the borders in a crisis of domestic terrorism. If this is a war (and it is), and if it is a war on our own soil (and it is), then militarizing the borders seems a reasonable possiblity, even if one most libertarian types would want to avoid at all costs (which we should- to a point.) If RonH were president and we had real state militias then we would be able to deal with this threat differently. But the President is looking at intel info that is telling him there are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Islamists bent on terror seeking access to the country through our borders, particularly own non-existent northern border. We already have evidence, fromt he Seattle bomber and several of the 9/11 guys, that this is happening. Bill O’Reilley has talked about this a great deal, and I think he represents that part of conservatism that wants an activist government response domestically before something terrible happens. Too bad we don’t have the state militias to deal with it. I have to say that it probably will take a major domestic terrorism incident to make the President’s position clear on this. I don’t particularly want to see our borders militarized, but the fact is we have neither a state force or any other law enforcement group that can insure our borders are not the back door for terrorists to use against us. It is no mistake that Miami and South Florida appear to be an Al Queda entrance point. The idea of 12,000 hostiles on our soil ready to bomb malls, churches, schools, poison the water, crash planes into nuke plants, etc. I makes me a supporter of the prudent use of the National Guard for this job.

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