Republican security debate
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I skipped the debate last night. The ones I have watched were so painful.
I didn't make it all the way through, but it was pretty much what was expected. Too many pro-Patriot act, pro-war opinions with the sole opposition being Ron Paul (Huntsman in some cases too).
Extraordinary measures have always been taken in wartime. FDR monitored all electronic message traffic into and out of the U.S. during WWII. Abraham Lincoln monitored telegraph traffic during the civil war. And George Washington stopped and searched suspected British couriers during the Revoluntion, without warrants. As Justice Robert Jackson said in another context, the Constitution isn't a suicide pact.
Japanese internment camps once had strong support in D.C. too. It doesn't mean it was a good thing.
Iraq did not make war with us. The talks of Iran are without them declaring war on us. Tomato, tomato, but the current candidates for the most part still hold the old neoconservative views of policing the world through wars of aggression. Perhaps you've been drinking too much of THEIR kool-aid?
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