Well. I have some ideas.

The first thing we do is remember the words of St. Franklin Delano: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Most of are much more likely to be killed by a drunk with an automobile than we are by terrorists.

I am told that terrorism is only politically effective when practiced by a government against its own people. It's not the terrorists that have infringed on our constitutional rights. They didn't pass the Patriot Act and that's a real threat. We are more likely to be imprisoned indefinitely without charges or counsel by our own government, not invading Iraqis. It's not the terrorists that bulldoze mountain tops and fill the valleys.

We have to give up this war against an abstract noun. "War on Terror" is nonsense. We need to get rid of specific terrorists, perhaps, but War on Terror will work about as well as the War on Drugs has; you can get all the drugs you want in prison, the most tightly controlled environments we have around here.

Terrorism is a crime, not a war. We got Timothy McVeigh by old fashioned cop work, not by declaring war on the mountain states.

And we should quit doing things that we know don't work. How long have Irish & Basque terrorists been with us? Have we learned anything from that?

We should get an administration that doesn't think dissent is traitorous. If you only listen to people who agree with you, you don't learn.

And if we figure out what to do don't expect it to work quickly. Blitzkrieg don't work.

There's more, but my index fingers are tired...

clint