Kill The Terrorists Where They Live

One of John Kerry's sillier complaints in the last election is that President Bush has not establish air tight security within our own borders.

Here's another reason why it's simply impracticable.

Rand, a nonprofit research firm, studied military-based antimissile technology and concluded that adapting it for commercial airlines would be prohibitively expensive and that the equipment would be too difficult to maintain. The study said there were many unresolved questions about how the technology would operate on commercial airlines, noting that false alarms could be a problem and that terrorists might find ways to fool the systems. The report urged further study of the threat posed by shoulder-fired missiles -- known as man-portable air defense systems (Manpads) -- and the systems to defend against attacks.

This is why we need to fight wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to kill the terrorists in their nests.