That for a fantasy or a trick of fame go to their graves like beds...

Watching the news, the war steps forward as "multiple explosions rock Baghdad." But I thought we were at war with "Terror", does Terror live there? Alternative news venues are telling us that the situation on the ground in Iraq is much worse then we (the American People) are being led (misled) to believe. Go here: http://www.back-to-iraq.com for a report from an independent journalist in Iraq. He raised his own money to go, and so he does not have to account to the media or say what someone tells him to say. He says its much more than a few cities holding out...
Meanwhile, Terror is *here*, not in Baghdad. We just implemented this protocol where all visitors from Europe and Asia (our allies) have to be digitally photographed and fingerprinted when they enter the country by plane. Mexican and Canadian citizens are exempt, mind you. So really, we are only pissing off our allies by implying that we don't trust them, and the country remains wide open and easy to enter for anyone else.
Carol Costello (CNN) fearfully asks some official: Won't the terrorists find another way in? And I am flabbergasted. First of all, I suspect that there are some terrorists that live here, and are here already. They don't have to break in like some jewel thief. Secondly, it is impossible to seal up a country of this size inside a tupperware container of security. If people want to get in, they will find a way. But apparently most Americans live in fear that these shadowy figures will somehow invade us.
I am not really afraid that terrorists will enter the country. I assume they will. I am more afraid that our policies at home and in the world will consolidate anti-US sentiment to the point that these people will recieve more support, and so have more resources to carry out their attacks.
They keep saying that "We have to attack them over there so we don't have to deal with them at home." Do people really believe that we, alone, as one nation in a world of nations, (and a disliked nation at that) can defeat a *form* of violence that exists in many countries, including our allies, including our own? I'm waiting for when we decide we must carpet bomb London to stop Al Qaeda.
The world is changing rapidly, this isn't the Cold War. We need to change the way we think about our country, our borders, our influence in a global community. Lines on the ground don't make a whole lot of sense anymore. And when it is relatively easy to acquire dangerous weapons, having more of them doesn't necessarily deter. We *knew* where all the Soviets weapons were, at all times, and how many they had. That's why mutually assured destruction worked. But if you can't pin your enemy down, that strategy loses its effectiveness.
I agree that terrorism is unacceptable, and must be stopped: but I don't have a lot of confidence in the ability of our leadership to address this problem.