Waiting Ten Years for Secure Borders is Ridiculous

If you have ever watched a war movie, you have probably viewed a scene such as this in the film. Whenever the soldiers are encamped, even for just the night, a commander tells his second-in-command to, “Form a perimeter."

One would think after 911 that would have also been the first words out of our commander-in-chief, President Bush but it appears the active slogan this time is “Form a perimeter within ten years."

In what must be considered the greatest game of dodge ball with American lives in history, congressional sources are now saying it could take till the year 2011 to have a viable perimeter formed around our nation. Such a statement should be totally unacceptable to anyone who ever has been in a war, understands war, or just watched a movie or read a book about war. And make no mistake we are at war.

It is now reported the virtual fence we have spent $60 million dollars on now needs to go back to the drawing board. The equipment used to detect nuclear devices in shipments also needs to be re-tooled and re-thought. The equipment to scan the multitude of containers that stack up on our nation’s docks also aren’t considered serviceable but what the heck, by the year 2011, everything will be just fine.

We have to thank God terrorists have been kind enough to oblige our requesting they wait for us to be ready to stop them. After all, an honest assessment of our open borders proves just one thing. We have not had an attack in our country because terrorist organizations are happy to just sit back and watch us destroy our economy without having to take any risks at all.

The fact is our Canadian border is predominantly wide open. Our border with Mexico has proven, with up to 20 million illegals in the country, that it is a turnstile. With those facts it is impossible to honestly state we have been disaster free due to our Homeland Security Department’s vigilance of our borders.

The amount of money being spent on Homeland Security would be staggering if not for an Iraq situation that boggles the mind of any person who can understand what a half trillion dollars is. With such numbers as those, spending $38 billion a year on security at home makes the Homeland Security Department look like a bargain. The only problem is for all that money spent; we aren’t one step closer to being safer than we were the day before the World Trade Towers were attacked.

To really make the entire affair all the more silly, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff explained last week it is important to secure our borders against drug traffickers as well as terrorists. Then just yesterday, local law enforcement agencies across the country were told their Federal Drug Task Force monies would be cut by two thirds due to budget constraints. So now we can’t stop crooks and terrorists at the border and won’t have the resources to catch them when they are within the perimeters of our cities doing whatever they like with no worry of being apprehended.

Let’s be honest. The people who are supposed to be protecting our perimeter have no idea what they are doing save one aspect. They know how to blow money in astronomical proportions.