What should the USA do to prevent the next 9/11?

Question

The same people who say Bush did not do enough to prevent 9/11 (ignoring that the 9/11 attacks developed while Clinton was President for 8 years) DO NOT WANT BUSH TO DO ANYTHING TO STOP TERRORISM.

What do you think the USA SHOULD do to stop terrorism?

Answer 1

Well, one way is to NOT go through every single country in the world and do whatever we can to piss them off, as we've done the past 7 years!

Too bad Dubya was too busy down at the ranch to read his National Intelligence Estimate warning of just such an attack (not that he reads anything anyway!)

Answer 2

To acknowledge that 9/11 did not happen in a vacuum, the next president should impanel a blue ribbon commission to take a serious look at why there are so many people in the world that hate us and would want to do us harm. There might be some recommendations as to how we could turn down the heat, or maybe not. But, the fact that such a panel has even been appointed would demonstrate for the world that we are serious about improving U.S. foreign relations.

The saber rattling and pontificating to the world about how the terrorists are jealous of our democracy and freedom that is so typical of this administration needs to stop. While it is true there are some fanatical extremists who are bred to hate (the reason our military will always be needed), meeting force with force should be a smaller part of the solution.

To JIMSOCK:

People like you scare me. You seem to believe that the way forward is to turn the country into a bunker where we all can hunker against those who scare us and might seek to do us harm. This hasn't worked in the past and won't work in the future--especially without making us prisoners in our own land and treating all American citizens as suspect. (We don't all look, talk, and think alike.)

Your indictment of all Blue Ribbon Commissions is also very shortsighted. What about the original 9/11 Commission? It brought together some of the brightest minds of all political persuasions. The Directorate of National Intelligence was their idea. Certainly, bringing together all intelligence gathering for the benefit of was a good idea. Lots of other things they came up with. Blue Ribbon panels can do a lot of good and this was just off the top of my head.

Isolation is a dangerous soution to advocate.

Answer 3

The US military, for the first time in History, has clearly stated that there is no possible way it can reliably predict the size and location of the next conflict it will engage in.

That means, even if we had a draft, the military will always be stretched thin.

There is no choice.
It is time to isolate
We must bring ALL our military home, not just Iraq and consoildate for deployment from the worlds most strategically located country. The United States of America.
Put up the missile defense system. SDI works. Gorbachev knew it.
End interventionism.
It's time for the rest of the world to take responsibility for their own defense.
Seal the borders.
End discount visas.
Enforce immigration quotas. There are people in the world who are more poor than Mexicans and should have the same opportunity to get here.
Build Fortress America.

MISTER J;
A blue ribbon commission??? What is that anyway?
Can you point to a single instance where a 'Blue Ribbon Commission' had an impact on anything at all that was anything other than negative?
This is exactly what I'm talking about. The notion that there is a way to reason with Religious Fanatics that want us all converted or dead is just ludicrous. Even if there was, we couldn't do it. It would have to be done by someone in their homeland who would miraculously be like minded with Americans. It's foolish to expect that it would work and to not prepare for when it doesn't.
Naive. We need to hunker down while the rest of the world burns and make a deal with the last man standing.

Answer 4

We will only prevent more 9-11 attacks if we stop antagonizing the whole world. Avarice, arrogance and hubris has set in, allowing America - and Americans - to believe they're superior intellectually, financially, militarily, culturally and socially.
We represent 5% of the world's population, yet squander 55% of the global resources.
When we learn to SHARE with other nations, and stop thinking of our own Anglo-Saxon Christian society and democracy as the one-and-only way to live, maybe the rest of the world will stop seeing us as the school yard bully.
Like all the great empires before us, the United States of America will collapse due to its own selfishness, greed, ignorance and amorality. The Greeks and Romans should have taught us a lesson: humility and modesty serves people (and nations) better than prowess and false pride. -RKO- 11/17/07

Answer 5

You really believe Bush is fighting terrorism now? Before we invaded Iraq, there were no terrorists there. Because of the way we run the war, there are countless billions over there, in cash, that often finds its way into terrorist hands in the form of bribes to the "contractors" running the war and undermining troop morale. If anything, we aren't just "watching and waiting", we are provoking the next attack, and when it comes, I don't think the world is going to mourn with us this time. This time, we will know exactly why they hate us and it isn't our freedom. It's the neo-cons who are doing away with that.

Answer 6

Put up a Great Wall like China did.

Answer 7

i think they shouldn't let anyone in the white house who has anything to do with oil. bush = oil family, cheney = halliburton, condoleezza rice = a former director of chevron. need i say any more? 9/11 was just a big business venture...at the expense of over 3,000 american soldiers who meant absolutely nothing to those in charge. how can you have a conscience when you're sittin back counting stacks?

Answer 8

Start foreign relations...and stop being the Bully of the World.

Secure the borders.

Answer 9

stop antagonizing people, get out of the middle east, stop policing the world, end the practice of having military bases all over the world...at last count, we're in 138 countries, treat all the other people and cultures of the world with the same respect with which we want them to treat us.....terrorists attack us not because they hate our way of life but because we meddle in theirs, stop treating their resources like they belong to us.

Answer 10

Secure the borders, that will solve more than just 1 problem too.