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Give me money for a plane ticket.

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Girls! You forgot the girls! *waves arms in air*

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Ah, the good old United States of Paranoia.

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I didn't see anyone suggesting that. The problem with all security measures is that they seem to affect innocent visitors more than the people wishing you harm. I found it unpleasant enough going through US immigration before 9/11 so goodness knows what it's like now.

You're not alone in that. We suffer from much the same here so it can't be such a bad place to live can it? I really don't see what the US problem with Mexican immigrants coming over a land border has to do with this thread.

I think the European attitude is different as most countries here have been fighting terrorism in one form or another since the end of WWII and doubly so since the 60's. I think a lot of Europeans forget America is playing catch-up in a big way and trying to do everything at once, and as anyone who has done an all-night cramming session for an exam will tell you "That don't work". Europeans have consideraly more experience fighting terrorism than most other parts of the world...

Thats a disadvantage everyones got. The problem is what ever you try to impose is far too strict and ultimately far too useless. What you have to realise is that a determined terrorist will find a way in however tough the restrictions are. And only a very stupid terrorist these days would A: take thier weapons and explosives on the plane with them while sneaking into the country and B: try to hijack an aircraft post 9/11.

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Actually, most immigrants come to the west looking for work. You don't spend your life savings getting smuggled into a country so you can just sit on your arse and twiddle your thumbs. The problem is a lot of them can't find work and that is why they get a bad rep. Finally, if the government gets its way and sends over 50% of students through university, then someones going to have to do the unskilled labour and it's asylum seekers that are going fill that void.

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....that advice should be tatooed to their foreheads! 
The article does reek of the man's  political agenda or party based trash talk. He is however accurate in my opinion in many respects. I think the title is what creates an immediate bias before the reader even begins the article. It should be titled "did everyone adequately clean up their mess at the end of WWII?" 
The tragedy that the US allowed  in Indochina is "prime example No.1", under Mark's credo.
Someone help me out here.....which former ally was it that was butchering young Americans 20 years later in the same jungles?
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...oops, nevermind, that's where they went....

Was there another solution to what would become the Soviet Union? I think it was a matter of being the path of least resistance. The eastern bloc countries were simply the spoils of war and no one wanted to argue with the Russians.

I agree with some of the others. NO government is perfect but if communism is so wonderful, how do you explain the fate of the former Soviet Union? And I have been to Cuba and it's very beautiful but  any recent prosperity is due to a thriving tourist industry(that's right....Capitalism). I would argue this point further but can simply put it to bed by saying that "you don't see people fleeing the United States via inner tube."