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MISFOCUS IN THE WAR ON TERROR?

Are we focusing on the wrong things?

We may have purposefully not captured or eliminated al-Zarqawi when we had the chance. The leader of al-Qaida, Usama Bin Laden, has never been caught, and continues making videotapes. Our standing in the world has plummeted. Our borders and, more notably, our ports are not secure. According to the Washington Post, at least some plans to have these secure are overdue by a few years. And unsecured fissile materials -- perhaps our largest threat -- remain unsecured.

We just did a Google search of "unsecured fissile materials." It may be an awkward phrase, but 15 entries came up. A Google search of WMD yielded about 25 million entries, and a Google search of Britney Spears yielded 52 million.

Fissile materials provide the key component of a nuclear WMD, of course. But it is unsecured WMD's, and more commonly, the fissile materials used to make them, that present the gravest threat to us.

15 Google entries? We're just saying that perhaps a little more attention needs to be paid to this issue, and more done around the globe to ascertain the location and control of all unsecured WMD's and fissile materials.

In the meantime, our Constitution is being flagrantly undermined, while we witness an unprecedented accumulation of federal executive power, in order to "protect us," by, largely, spying on Americans, and journalists.

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