Luckydog71:
Please note that you are posting on a Canadian board. As such, the world revolving around the US is less of a certainty up here.
However, if I were President, I'd take a long hard look at the people who were advising me, and fire them. I'd try to take a better look at what my policies had gotten me into, figure out where I wanted to go, and cut my losses on any policies that hadn't gotten me any closer to where I wanted to be.
And speaking as a person who just transited through the US, I can only say that:
1. Airport security, and the mental deficients who serve as security people at US airports, aren't bright enough to catch any terrorists. The way to ensure security is to have properly trained security specialists in the airports, not minimum wage police academy rejects manning the security check points and cameras. Security specialists will cost more than minimum wage, though.
2. While the threat of terrorism attacks is as real in Canada as it is in any other country, we still have a country to run. The point of the terrorist attacks was to disrupt everyday American life, and they have; nobody likes to travel any more, and non-business travel is still down. Major airlines have gone into bankruptcy protection, and a couple are on the verge. By those measures, the terrorists have already adversely affected US life, and their effects will be around for years to come.
What do you do about the terrorists all over the world? You build a proper intellegence network that delivers information that is accurate, and you train/find/get people who understand what the terrorist mind set is all about.
Muslim extremists want to do whatever they want to do, but the lighning rod for all of their anger is the US.
What you personally ought to think about doing is trying to figure out what the world is about; not by watching CNN or FOX news, but by lwatching the BBC World News, perhaps the CBC, and some of the European news sources. At least these news stations do not serve as mouthpieces for the US government.
I hope this doesn't read as being angry, its just that so much of the US media is owned by the conservatives, with no dissention, that it has become very easy for the US Public to be lead around by the nose, and it has been.
Kinman
P.S. The alternative is to nuke them all, and yes that was sarcastic.