^^ You'd think, with a 2-3 yr wait to sneak into the U.S. as a refugee, that a terrorist would get a bit impatient and choose a different route, like getting a passport from a country that participates in our visa waver program, or perhaps get a student visa, both of which would get him here fairly immediately while avoiding all those pesky interviews and background checks. Then of course there are the 10,000 or so miles of U.S. borders, most of which are unattended... the politicians may have chosen to fearmonger the wrong thing this time, I think.
If fear must be sold to the public, I think it would be better (though still bad; fearmongering, in my mind, is never a good thing) if it were done so to fight deaths by things like, say, guns, cancer, or traffic, all of which kill far more people every year than terrorists have killed in the U.S.'s entire history. I guess those things just don't work as well on the TV screen.
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