It's certainly a tough call. It's extremely difficult to fight this kind of battle. As you can see by the violence directed at US troops currently in Iraq, it takes relatively few enemy combatants to cause a great deal of instability in the area. The same is true for Al Qaeda cells. They are diffcult to track because they aren't organized or centralized. You saw how we walked through Iraq's conventional forces........but now they have become much more dificult to identify and thereby harder to eliminate.

Terrorists have the same thing going for them. Just think the next time you're out driving around how easy it would be to wreak havoc in this country........because we are free to roam and go relatively unrestricted. One dude with a shoulder-fired missile, and 250 people and an airliner go up in flames. Now orchestrate that in a dozen US cities on the same day, and it's Sept. 11th again. The results would be disastrous. And that's just the kind of punch they want to give us.....right in the pocketbook.

The only way you can possibly prevent this kind of stuff is by complete control and surveillance by the government. I think the simple nature of our free society makes it impossible to completely eradicate terrorists. We can make life much more difficult on them, but I get the feeling there will always be terrorists.

I think we could go a long way towards making ourselves safer by improving our own awareness. You think terrorists are going to try to use planes as missiles again? I doubt it.....we're wise to them. But there are glaring weaknesses across the country that we, as citizens, should be keeping an eye on. We're too big a country for the government to keep their eyes on all of it.

It's kinda like a big hornet's nest on your property. Do you go stir them up and chance getting the crap stung out of you and hope you can wipe out the hive...........or do you just let them be and live with getting stung once in a while? I've tried both methods.......still not sure which one is the best option.