"I agree, Jim, but those points are so far reaching and the variety of threats so great they defy the word "focus". We've been so successful with illegal immigration and drug smuggling through the years, after all."

And 'focusing' attention on the Twin Towers (and every other tall building) would have been any easier?

It's the 'eggs in one basket' bit that's flawed, IMO. If we know how effective we are in drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and the like, we never needed a 9/11 to remind us that our security was lax.

Going into Iraq was like taking eggs from one badly in need of repair basket, and tryng to force them back into the chicken.

Well that's the way I have been reading it, anyway.

Jim